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Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Galway by Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Galway or Krakow?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Galway for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Galway’s own page.

Choose Krakow for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Galway 28, Krakow 9: Galway leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Galway 45, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Galway 33, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Galway 50, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galway 78, Krakow 62: Galway leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Galway 56, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Galway 42, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Galway 58, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Galway 38, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Galway 28, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galway 57, Krakow 55: Galway leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galway 28, Krakow 36: Krakow leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galway and Krakow.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Galway
45match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Galway in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Galway's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Shannon Airport.

Galway has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalwayKrakow
Official languageEnglish, IrishPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m219 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayKrakow
City population83,456804,237
People per km²1,5632,459
Museums within 10 km4113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.