VacationSelector

Galway or Palermo?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

GalwayPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
GalwayPalermo
Score5167
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1313
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 13 points.13
GalwayPalermo
Score3750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2013
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 30 points.30
GalwayPalermo
Score2050
Museums within 10 km532
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %10081
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
GalwayPalermo
Score2653
Drinking venues within 4 km185799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km816
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 19 points.19
GalwayPalermo
Score5536
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8545
Park area within 2 km65 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
GalwayPalermo
Score2541
Tourist attractions within 2 km516
Park area within 2 km65 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 35 points.35
GalwayPalermo
Score2257
Notable places within 2 km14104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 11 points.11
GalwayPalermo
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 23 points.23
GalwayPalermo
Score5477
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayPalermo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
NaplesNAP
3 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
€83-126
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 25 m
€141-167
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPS · 80 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

MeasureGalwayPalermo
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m14 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayPalermo
City population83,456630,167
People per km²1,5633,924
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2533
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.