VacationSelector

Galway or Siena?

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, level with your weighting

Galway
39
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Siena
39
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.

GalwaySiena
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwaySiena
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 5 points.5
GalwaySiena
Score3732
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2011
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 51 points.51
GalwaySiena
Score2071
Museums within 10 km555
Museums within 2 km of centre551
Share of museums within 2 km %10093
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Galway leads by 9 points.9
GalwaySiena
Score2617
Drinking venues within 4 km185142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8384
Nightclubs within 4 km81
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 36 points.36
GalwaySiena
Score5519
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Siena leads by 6 points.6
GalwaySiena
Score2531
Tourist attractions within 2 km513
Park area within 2 km65 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 28 points.28
GalwaySiena
Score2250
Notable places within 2 km1469
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 11 points.11
GalwaySiena
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 10 points.10
GalwaySiena
Score5464
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
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
Siena
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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwaySiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 50 m
€84-105
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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

MeasureGalwaySiena
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 m322 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwaySiena
City population83,45652,812
People per km²1,563446
Museums within 10 km429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2525
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.