VacationSelector

Galway or Salzburg?

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.

Salzburg
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

GalwaySalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwaySalzburg
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km139
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 12 points.12
GalwaySalzburg
Score3749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2023
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 40 points.40
GalwaySalzburg
Score2060
Museums within 10 km542
Museums within 2 km of centre527
Share of museums within 2 km %10064
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 10 points.10
GalwaySalzburg
Score2636
Drinking venues within 4 km185294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8382
Nightclubs within 4 km816
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 28 points.28
GalwaySalzburg
Score5527
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 23 points.23
GalwaySalzburg
Score2548
Tourist attractions within 2 km517
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 24 points.24
GalwaySalzburg
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1454
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 2 points.2
GalwaySalzburg
Score5759
Price level global80.276.9
Daily budget€187€160
Year-round weather. Galway and Salzburg are level on 54.
GalwaySalzburg
Score5454
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwaySalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
CologneCGN
2 h 0 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
1 h 10 m
€134-141
MUC · 112 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

MeasureGalwaySalzburg
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m424 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwaySalzburg
City population83,456155,021
People per km²1,5632,360
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2550
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.