VacationSelector

Galway or Hamburg?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

GalwayHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayHamburg
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1316
Coast distance1 km22 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 36 points.36
GalwayHamburg
Score3773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1731,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2038
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 40 points.40
GalwayHamburg
Score2060
Museums within 10 km594
Museums within 2 km of centre550
Share of museums within 2 km %10053
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 42 points.42
GalwayHamburg
Score2668
Drinking venues within 4 km1851,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8362
Nightclubs within 4 km8119
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 15 points.15
GalwayHamburg
Score5540
Protected land share 50 km %—14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %8599
Park area within 2 km65 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 35 points.35
GalwayHamburg
Score2560
Tourist attractions within 2 km540
Park area within 2 km65 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 37 points.37
GalwayHamburg
Score2259
Notable places within 2 km14118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 3 points.3
GalwayHamburg
Score5760
Price level global80.275.9
Daily budget€187€163
Year-round weather. Hamburg leads by 1 points.1
GalwayHamburg
Score5455
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months01
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayHamburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
FaroFAO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 50 m
€415-451
2 stops
HAM · 9 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 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

MeasureGalwayHamburg
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman
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 m6 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayHamburg
City population83,4561,910,160
People per km²1,5632,530
Museums within 10 km477
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2583
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.