VacationSelector

Galway or Sorrento?

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, 2 points apart

Galway
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

GalwaySorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 26 points.26
GalwaySorrento
Score5177
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1378
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 18 points.18
GalwaySorrento
Score3719
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km205
Museums & heritage. Sorrento leads by 17 points.17
GalwaySorrento
Score2037
Museums within 10 km57
Museums within 2 km of centre54
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Galway leads by 4 points.4
GalwaySorrento
Score2622
Drinking venues within 4 km185179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8373
Nightclubs within 4 km82
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 32 points.32
GalwaySorrento
Score5523
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8542
Park area within 2 km65 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Galway leads by 20 points.20
GalwaySorrento
Score255
Tourist attractions within 2 km52
Park area within 2 km65 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Galway leads by 12 points.12
GalwaySorrento
Score2210
Notable places within 2 km147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sorrento leads by 11 points.11
GalwaySorrento
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 19 points.19
GalwaySorrento
Score5473
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwaySorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 5 m
€109-195
NAP · 30 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BudapestBUD
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 40 m
€81-107
NAP · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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

MeasureGalwaySorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwaySorrento
City population83,45615,407
People per km²1,5631,541
Museums within 10 km45
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2511
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.