VacationSelector

Galway or Mexico City?

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 with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

GalwayMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayMexico City
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance1 km247 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 29 points.29
GalwayMexico City
Score3766
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1732,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 59 points.59
GalwayMexico City
Score2079
Museums within 10 km5138
Museums within 2 km of centre565
Share of museums within 2 km %10047
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 52 points.52
GalwayMexico City
Score2678
Drinking venues within 4 km1852,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8343
Nightclubs within 4 km8198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
GalwayMexico City
Score5563
Protected land share 50 km %—30
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 25 points.25
GalwayMexico City
Score2550
Tourist attractions within 2 km523
Park area within 2 km65 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
GalwayMexico City
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
GalwayMexico City
Score5776
Price level global80.254.2
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
GalwayMexico City
Score5490
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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

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 centre36 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2550
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.