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Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Galway by Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Galway or St. Petersburg, Florida?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Galway for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Galway’s own page.

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Galway 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Galway 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Galway 33, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Galway 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: Galway leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galway 78, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Galway leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Galway 56, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Galway leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Galway 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Galway 58, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Galway leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Galway and St. Petersburg, Florida are level on 38.
Affordability. Galway 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galway 57, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: Galway leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galway 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galway and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Galway
45match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Galway in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Galway's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Shannon Airport.

Galway has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalwaySt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation25 m134 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwaySt. Petersburg, Florida
City population83,456258,308
People per km²1,563725
Museums within 10 km413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.