VacationSelector

Galway or Geneva?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Galway
39
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Geneva
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GalwayGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayGeneva
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1343
Coast distance1 km279 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 33 points.33
GalwayGeneva
Score3770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1731,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 32 points.32
GalwayGeneva
Score2052
Museums within 10 km535
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
GalwayGeneva
Score2650
Drinking venues within 4 km185549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km860
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
GalwayGeneva
Score5559
Protected land share 50 km %—27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %021
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 40 points.40
GalwayGeneva
Score2565
Tourist attractions within 2 km528
Park area within 2 km65 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 34 points.34
GalwayGeneva
Score2256
Notable places within 2 km1499
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway leads by 22 points.22
GalwayGeneva
Score5735
Price level global80.2110.5
Daily budget€187€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 5 points.5
GalwayGeneva
Score5459
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm55 mm to 94 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
PortoOPO
2 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
€127-171
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureGalwayGeneva
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m403 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayGeneva
City population83,456209,061
People per km²1,56313,148
Museums within 10 km435
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2580
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.