VacationSelector

Galway or Kotor?

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

Your match

Galway
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Kotor
36
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

GalwayKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 26 points.26
GalwayKotor
Score5177
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1350
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 11 points.11
GalwayKotor
Score3726
Restaurants within 2 km of centre17371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2019
Museums & heritage. Kotor leads by 8 points.8
GalwayKotor
Score2028
Museums within 10 km57
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %10043
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Galway leads by 22 points.22
GalwayKotor
Score264
Drinking venues within 4 km18546
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre15338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8383
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 40 points.40
GalwayKotor
Score5515
Protected land share 50 km %—10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %8566
Park area within 2 km65 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 16 points.16
GalwayKotor
Score259
Tourist attractions within 2 km58
Park area within 2 km65 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Galway leads by 1 points.1
GalwayKotor
Score2221
Notable places within 2 km1413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 30 points.30
GalwayKotor
Score5787
Price level global80.238.9
Daily budget€187€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 7 points.7
GalwayKotor
Score5461
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm38 mm to 256 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
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayKotor
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 40 m
€100-108
TGD · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 0 m
€257-300
2 stops
TIV · 5 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 50 m
€90-151
TGD · 40 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 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

MeasureGalwayKotor
Official languageEnglish, IrishMontenegrin
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 m10 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days–

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayKotor
City population83,456562
People per km²1,563–
Museums within 10 km43
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2527
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.