VacationSelector

Galway or Monaco?

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 nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Monaco
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

GalwayMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 22 points.22
GalwayMonaco
Score5173
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1350
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
GalwayMonaco
Score3739
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2016
Museums & heritage. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
GalwayMonaco
Score2038
Museums within 10 km523
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %10035
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Galway leads by 18 points.18
GalwayMonaco
Score268
Drinking venues within 4 km18569
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre15363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8391
Nightclubs within 4 km87
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 2 points.2
GalwayMonaco
Score5553
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %8554
Park area within 2 km65 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Monaco leads by 10 points.10
GalwayMonaco
Score2535
Tourist attractions within 2 km514
Park area within 2 km65 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 42 points.42
GalwayMonaco
Score2264
Notable places within 2 km14154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 20 points.20
GalwayMonaco
Score5474
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Monaco
9
11
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
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
€125-148
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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

MeasureGalwayMonaco
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m68 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayMonaco
City population83,45638,857
People per km²1,56318,503
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2529
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.