VacationSelector

Galway or Tampa?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
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.

GalwayTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 24 points.24
GalwayTampa
Score5175
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km1310
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 17 points.17
GalwayTampa
Score3754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2031
Museums & heritage. Tampa leads by 7 points.7
GalwayTampa
Score2027
Museums within 10 km513
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %10077
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 13 points.13
GalwayTampa
Score2639
Drinking venues within 4 km185324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 25 points.25
GalwayTampa
Score5530
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8572
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Tampa leads by 5 points.5
GalwayTampa
Score2530
Tourist attractions within 2 km53
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Galway leads by 1 points.1
GalwayTampa
Score2221
Notable places within 2 km1413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway leads by 14 points.14
GalwayTampa
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 21 points.21
GalwayTampa
Score5475
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureGalwayTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayTampa
City population83,456384,959
People per km²1,563848
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2547
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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. 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.