VacationSelector

Galway or Porto?

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.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

GalwayPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 9 points.9
GalwayPorto
Score5160
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1352
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 31 points.31
GalwayPorto
Score3768
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1731,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2027
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 51 points.51
GalwayPorto
Score2071
Museums within 10 km5101
Museums within 2 km of centre557
Share of museums within 2 km %10056
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Porto leads by 32 points.32
GalwayPorto
Score2658
Drinking venues within 4 km185900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km838
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 22 points.22
GalwayPorto
Score5533
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8561
Park area within 2 km65 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 40 points.40
GalwayPorto
Score2565
Tourist attractions within 2 km5122
Park area within 2 km65 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 32 points.32
GalwayPorto
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1485
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 17 points.17
GalwayPorto
Score5774
Price level global80.255.9
Daily budget€187€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 17 points.17
GalwayPorto
Score5471
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
FaroFAO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
FunchalFNC
3 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
€67-130
OPO · 12 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 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

MeasureGalwayPorto
Official languageEnglish, IrishPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m104 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayPorto
City population83,456231,800
People per km²1,5635,599
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2570
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. 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.