VacationSelector

Galway or Nice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Galway
39
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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.

GalwayNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 22 points.22
GalwayNice
Score5173
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1370
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 32 points.32
GalwayNice
Score3769
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1731,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2028
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 26 points.26
GalwayNice
Score2046
Museums within 10 km527
Museums within 2 km of centre514
Share of museums within 2 km %10052
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Nice leads by 18 points.18
GalwayNice
Score2644
Drinking venues within 4 km185428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8391
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 2 points.2
GalwayNice
Score5557
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %8562
Park area within 2 km65 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Nice leads by 5 points.5
GalwayNice
Score2530
Tourist attractions within 2 km54
Park area within 2 km65 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 25 points.25
GalwayNice
Score2247
Notable places within 2 km1460
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 5 points.5
GalwayNice
Score5762
Price level global80.273.7
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 20 points.20
GalwayNice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayNice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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

MeasureGalwayNice
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m0 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayNice
City population83,456357,737
People per km²1,5634,975
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2565
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. 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.