VacationSelector

Galway or Orlando?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Galway
39
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

GalwayOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayOrlando
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance1 km68 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 11 points.11
GalwayOrlando
Score3748
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2021
Museums & heritage. Galway leads by 12 points.12
GalwayOrlando
Score208
Museums within 10 km511
Museums within 2 km of centre52
Share of museums within 2 km %10018
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 15 points.15
GalwayOrlando
Score2641
Drinking venues within 4 km185344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km839
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 11 points.11
GalwayOrlando
Score5544
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 64 points.64
GalwayOrlando
Score2589
Tourist attractions within 2 km5
Park area within 2 km65 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km020
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Galway leads by 6 points.6
GalwayOrlando
Score2216
Notable places within 2 km1410
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway leads by 14 points.14
GalwayOrlando
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 20 points.20
GalwayOrlando
Score5474
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm46 mm to 203 mm
Dry months00
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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Orlando
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 14 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

MeasureGalwayOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayOrlando
City population83,456334,854
People per km²1,5631,086
Museums within 10 km411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2530
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.