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Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Galway by Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Galway or Mexico City?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Galway leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Galway 45, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Galway 33, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Galway 50, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galway 78, Mexico City 50: Galway leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Galway 56, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Galway 42, Mexico City 58: Mexico City leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Galway 58, Mexico City 50: Galway leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Galway 38, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Galway 28, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galway 57, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galway 28, Mexico City 40: Mexico City leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galway and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Galway
45match

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

Mexico City
Best match
63match

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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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GalwayMexico City

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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalwayMexico City
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation25 m2,240 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayMexico City
City population83,4569,209,944
People per km²1,5636,202
Museums within 10 km4108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.