VacationSelector

Galway or Stockholm?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

GalwayStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
GalwayStockholm
Score5160
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1373
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 39 points.39
GalwayStockholm
Score3776
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1731,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2036
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 49 points.49
GalwayStockholm
Score2069
Museums within 10 km574
Museums within 2 km of centre547
Share of museums within 2 km %10064
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 38 points.38
GalwayStockholm
Score2664
Drinking venues within 4 km1851,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km8106
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 14 points.14
GalwayStockholm
Score5541
Protected land share 50 km %—7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8577
Park area within 2 km65 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 32 points.32
GalwayStockholm
Score2557
Tourist attractions within 2 km523
Park area within 2 km65 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 57 points.57
GalwayStockholm
Score2279
Notable places within 2 km14357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway and Stockholm are level on 57.
GalwayStockholm
Score5757
Price level global80.280.3
Daily budget€187€169
Year-round weather. Galway leads by 1 points.1
GalwayStockholm
Score5453
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 50 m
€121-161
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureGalwayStockholm
Official languageEnglish, IrishSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m22 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayStockholm
City population83,456984,748
People per km²1,5635,260
Museums within 10 km4266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2581
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.