VacationSelector

Galway or Nuremberg?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Nuremberg
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families 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.

GalwayNuremberg
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayNuremberg
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km136
Coast distance1 km430 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Nuremberg leads by 27 points.27
GalwayNuremberg
Score3764
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173700
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2033
Museums & heritage. Nuremberg leads by 32 points.32
GalwayNuremberg
Score2052
Museums within 10 km553
Museums within 2 km of centre529
Share of museums within 2 km %10055
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Nuremberg leads by 22 points.22
GalwayNuremberg
Score2648
Drinking venues within 4 km185523
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8382
Nightclubs within 4 km836
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 6 points.6
GalwayNuremberg
Score5549
Protected land share 50 km %—42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %041
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares31 hectares
Good for families. Nuremberg leads by 34 points.34
GalwayNuremberg
Score2559
Tourist attractions within 2 km559
Park area within 2 km65 hectares31 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Nuremberg leads by 22 points.22
GalwayNuremberg
Score2244
Notable places within 2 km1450
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nuremberg leads by 3 points.3
GalwayNuremberg
Score5760
Price level global80.275.9
Daily budget€187€163
Year-round weather. Nuremberg leads by 6 points.6
GalwayNuremberg
Score5460
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C3.5 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm33 mm to 77 mm
Dry months04
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Nuremberg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayNuremberg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 15 m
€128-169
MUC · 133 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
FaroFAO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 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 2026-09 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

MeasureGalwayNuremberg
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m209 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayNuremberg
City population83,456529,508
People per km²1,5632,839
Museums within 10 km450
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2571
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. 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.