VacationSelector

Galway or Granada?

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 with your weighting.

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

GalwayGranada
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayGranada
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance1 km48 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 30 points.30
GalwayGranada
Score3767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 28 points.28
GalwayGranada
Score2048
Museums within 10 km528
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %10093
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Granada leads by 26 points.26
GalwayGranada
Score2652
Drinking venues within 4 km185637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km846
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 8 points.8
GalwayGranada
Score5563
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8596
Park area within 2 km65 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 31 points.31
GalwayGranada
Score2556
Tourist attractions within 2 km560
Park area within 2 km65 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Granada leads by 22 points.22
GalwayGranada
Score2244
Notable places within 2 km1450
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 14 points.14
GalwayGranada
Score5771
Price level global80.260.8
Daily budget€187€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 20 points.20
GalwayGranada
Score5474
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months07
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Granada
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
NottinghamEMA
1 h 15 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
BristolBRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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

MeasureGalwayGranada
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m693 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayGranada
City population83,456233,975
People per km²1,5632,659
Museums within 10 km419
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2562
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.