VacationSelector

Galway or Split?

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.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

GalwaySplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 22 points.22
GalwaySplit
Score5173
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1387
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Split leads by 1 points.1
GalwaySplit
Score3738
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 32 points.32
GalwaySplit
Score2052
Museums within 10 km518
Museums within 2 km of centre516
Share of museums within 2 km %10089
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Split leads by 15 points.15
GalwaySplit
Score2641
Drinking venues within 4 km185379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8369
Nightclubs within 4 km823
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 17 points.17
GalwaySplit
Score5538
Protected land share 50 km %—9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8562
Park area within 2 km65 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Split leads by 1 points.1
GalwaySplit
Score2526
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km65 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Split leads by 20 points.20
GalwaySplit
Score2242
Notable places within 2 km1443
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 23 points.23
GalwaySplit
Score5780
Price level global80.248.5
Daily budget€187€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 15 points.15
GalwaySplit
Score5469
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwaySplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
€69-120
ZAD · 109 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ZAD · 109 km
BristolBRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 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

MeasureGalwaySplit
Official languageEnglish, IrishCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwaySplit
City population83,456160,577
People per km²1,563–
Museums within 10 km411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre2531
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.