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The Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort, Galle
GalleThe Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Galle by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Galle or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Galle leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Galle 50, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Galle 55, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Galle 18, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galle 66, San Miguel de Allende 40: Galle leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Galle 50, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Galle 42, San Miguel de Allende 32: Galle leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Galle 35, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Galle 33, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Galle 72, San Miguel de Allende 50: Galle leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galle 10, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galle 70, San Miguel de Allende 66: Galle leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galle and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Galle
48match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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GalleSan Miguel de Allende

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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalleSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageTamil, SinhalaSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation0 m1,900 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)133 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalleSan Miguel de Allende
City population93,11869,811
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.