VacationSelector

Galway or Stuttgart?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GalwayStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayStuttgart
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance1 km476 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 22 points.22
GalwayStuttgart
Score3759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 36 points.36
GalwayStuttgart
Score2056
Museums within 10 km565
Museums within 2 km of centre521
Share of museums within 2 km %10032
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 23 points.23
GalwayStuttgart
Score2649
Drinking venues within 4 km185524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km853
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 25 points.25
GalwayStuttgart
Score5580
Protected land share 50 km %—51
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 20 points.20
GalwayStuttgart
Score2545
Tourist attractions within 2 km511
Park area within 2 km65 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 22 points.22
GalwayStuttgart
Score2244
Notable places within 2 km1450
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 3 points.3
GalwayStuttgart
Score5760
Price level global80.275.9
Daily budget€187€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 9 points.9
GalwayStuttgart
Score5463
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm33 mm to 79 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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayStuttgart
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
FaroFAO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BudapestBUD
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 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

MeasureGalwayStuttgart
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayStuttgart
City population83,456633,484
People per km²1,5633,054
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2559
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.