VacationSelector

Galway or Oslo?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

GalwayOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
GalwayOslo
Score5160
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13163
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 30 points.30
GalwayOslo
Score3767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 28 points.28
GalwayOslo
Score2048
Museums within 10 km570
Museums within 2 km of centre537
Share of museums within 2 km %10053
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 27 points.27
GalwayOslo
Score2653
Drinking venues within 4 km185695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8381
Nightclubs within 4 km841
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
GalwayOslo
Score5561
Protected land share 50 km %—22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8594
Park area within 2 km65 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
GalwayOslo
Score2548
Tourist attractions within 2 km513
Park area within 2 km65 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 47 points.47
GalwayOslo
Score2269
Notable places within 2 km14207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway leads by 3 points.3
GalwayOslo
Score5754
Price level global80.285.1
Daily budget€187€203
Year-round weather. Galway leads by 6 points.6
GalwayOslo
Score5448
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
€47-64
OSL · 37 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureGalwayOslo
Official languageEnglish, IrishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation25 m23 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayOslo
City population83,456717,710
People per km²1,563–
Museums within 10 km460
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2575
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.