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Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Galway by Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Galway or New York?

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
  • prices

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

Choose New York for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: New York leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Galway 45, New York 92: New York leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Galway 33, New York 89: New York leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Galway 50, New York 97: New York leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galway 78, New York 55: Galway leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Galway 56, New York 68: New York leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Galway 42, New York 70: New York leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Galway 58, New York 82: New York leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Galway 38, New York 97: New York leads by 59 points.
Affordability. Galway 28, New York 12: Galway leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galway 57, New York 99: New York leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galway 28, New York 42: New York leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galway and New York.

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 prices with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights 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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalwayNew York
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation25 m25 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayNew York
City population83,4568,804,190
People per km²1,5637,256
Museums within 10 km4157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.