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The Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort, Galle
GalleThe Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Galle by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Galle or Hiroshima?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Galle for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Galle’s own page.

Choose Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Galle 80, Hiroshima 30: Galle leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Galle 50, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Galle 55, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Galle 18, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galle 66, Hiroshima 62: Galle leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Galle 50, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Galle 42, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Galle 35, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Galle 33, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Galle 72, Hiroshima 58: Galle leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galle 10, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galle 70, Hiroshima 50: Galle leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galle and Hiroshima.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Galle
48match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Galle in July

28 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Galle has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galle: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalleHiroshima
Official languageTamil, SinhalaJapanese
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)133 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalleHiroshima
City population93,1181,198,021
People per km²-1,324
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.