VacationSelector

Galway or Las Vegas?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

GalwayLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayLas Vegas
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance1 km372 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 25 points.25
GalwayLas Vegas
Score3762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2024
Museums & heritage. Galway leads by 1 points.1
GalwayLas Vegas
Score2019
Museums within 10 km524
Museums within 2 km of centre54
Share of museums within 2 km %10017
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 32 points.32
GalwayLas Vegas
Score2658
Drinking venues within 4 km185793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8361
Nightclubs within 4 km890
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
GalwayLas Vegas
Score5563
Protected land share 50 km %50
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 9 points.9
GalwayLas Vegas
Score2534
Tourist attractions within 2 km519
Park area within 2 km65 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 29 points.29
GalwayLas Vegas
Score2251
Notable places within 2 km1475
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway leads by 14 points.14
GalwayLas Vegas
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 18 points.18
GalwayLas Vegas
Score5472
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
5 h 10 m
€236-259
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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

MeasureGalwayLas Vegas
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation25 m610 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayLas Vegas
City population83,456641,903
People per km²1,5631,843
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2549
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. 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.