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Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

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

Galway or Tunis?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Galway 45, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Galway 33, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Galway 50, Tunis 33: Galway leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galway 78, Tunis 45: Galway leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Galway 56, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Galway 42, Tunis 38: Galway leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Galway 58, Tunis 48: Galway leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Galway 38, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Galway 28, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galway 57, Tunis 38: Galway leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galway 28, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galway and Tunis.

Your match

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

Galway
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalwayTunis
Official languageEnglish, IrishArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation25 m4 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayTunis
City population83,456602,560
People per km²1,5632,834
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.