VacationSelector

Galway or Toledo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Galway
39
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on good for families 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.

GalwayToledo
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
GalwayToledo
Score510
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km131
Coast distance1 km320 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Galway leads by 13 points.13
GalwayToledo
Score3724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km207
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 26 points.26
GalwayToledo
Score2046
Museums within 10 km519
Museums within 2 km of centre519
Share of museums within 2 km %100100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Galway leads by 9 points.9
GalwayToledo
Score2617
Drinking venues within 4 km185120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8396
Nightclubs within 4 km85
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 27 points.27
GalwayToledo
Score5528
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 29 points.29
GalwayToledo
Score2554
Tourist attractions within 2 km532
Park area within 2 km65 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 24 points.24
GalwayToledo
Score2246
Notable places within 2 km1455
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 14 points.14
GalwayToledo
Score5771
Price level global80.260.8
Daily budget€187€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 20 points.20
GalwayToledo
Score5474
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 25 m
€111-148
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
€78-91
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 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

MeasureGalwayToledo
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish
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 m523 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayToledo
City population83,45687,216
People per km²1,563376
Museums within 10 km413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2513
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.