VacationSelector

Galway or Izmir?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

GalwayIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 4 points.4
GalwayIzmir
Score5155
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 12 points.12
GalwayIzmir
Score3749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2012
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 23 points.23
GalwayIzmir
Score2043
Museums within 10 km547
Museums within 2 km of centre527
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 36 points.36
GalwayIzmir
Score2662
Drinking venues within 4 km1851,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8368
Nightclubs within 4 km870
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 26 points.26
GalwayIzmir
Score5529
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8584
Park area within 2 km65 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
GalwayIzmir
Score2535
Tourist attractions within 2 km56
Park area within 2 km65 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
GalwayIzmir
Score2240
Notable places within 2 km1439
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 32 points.32
GalwayIzmir
Score5789
Price level global80.235.2
Daily budget€187€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 18 points.18
GalwayIzmir
Score5472
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayIzmir
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
CologneCGN
2 h 0 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
3 h 10 m
€173-175
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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

MeasureGalwayIzmir
Official languageEnglish, IrishTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayIzmir
City population83,4564,493,242
People per km²1,5634,760
Museums within 10 km429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2520
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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. 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.