VacationSelector

Galway or La Spezia?

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 sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

GalwayLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 22 points.22
GalwayLa Spezia
Score5173
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1332
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 6 points.6
GalwayLa Spezia
Score3731
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2011
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 22 points.22
GalwayLa Spezia
Score2042
Museums within 10 km515
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %10067
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Galway leads by 2 points.2
GalwayLa Spezia
Score2624
Drinking venues within 4 km185208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8385
Nightclubs within 4 km81
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 3 points.3
GalwayLa Spezia
Score5552
Protected land share 50 km %—13
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8551
Park area within 2 km65 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 5 points.5
GalwayLa Spezia
Score2520
Tourist attractions within 2 km53
Park area within 2 km65 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Galway leads by 15 points.15
GalwayLa Spezia
Score227
Notable places within 2 km146
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 11 points.11
GalwayLa Spezia
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 16 points.16
GalwayLa Spezia
Score5470
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
La Spezia
9
10
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
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
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). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 50 m
€84-105
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureGalwayLa Spezia
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m3 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayLa Spezia
City population83,45692,119
People per km²1,5631,792
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2522
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.