VacationSelector

Galway or Melbourne?

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 and value for money with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

GalwayMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 4 points.4
GalwayMelbourne
Score5155
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1319
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 38 points.38
GalwayMelbourne
Score3775
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1731,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 29 points.29
GalwayMelbourne
Score2049
Museums within 10 km542
Museums within 2 km of centre524
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 48 points.48
GalwayMelbourne
Score2674
Drinking venues within 4 km1851,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1531,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8362
Nightclubs within 4 km8124
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 12 points.12
GalwayMelbourne
Score5543
Protected land share 50 km %—6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8581
Park area within 2 km65 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 35 points.35
GalwayMelbourne
Score2560
Tourist attractions within 2 km526
Park area within 2 km65 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 35 points.35
GalwayMelbourne
Score2257
Notable places within 2 km14103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway leads by 7 points.7
GalwayMelbourne
Score5750
Price level global80.290.2
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 22 points.22
GalwayMelbourne
Score5476
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm45 mm to 69 mm
Dry months00
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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureGalwayMelbourne
Official languageEnglish, IrishEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation25 m31 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayMelbourne
City population83,4565,350,705
People per km²1,563535
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2586
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.