VacationSelector

Galway or Vancouver?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

GalwayVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
GalwayVancouver
Score5160
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13109
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 37 points.37
GalwayVancouver
Score3774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1731,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 14 points.14
GalwayVancouver
Score2034
Museums within 10 km527
Museums within 2 km of centre515
Share of museums within 2 km %10056
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 31 points.31
GalwayVancouver
Score2657
Drinking venues within 4 km185848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km844
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 22 points.22
GalwayVancouver
Score5577
Protected land share 50 km %—19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8560
Park area within 2 km65 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 28 points.28
GalwayVancouver
Score2553
Tourist attractions within 2 km515
Park area within 2 km65 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 26 points.26
GalwayVancouver
Score2248
Notable places within 2 km1463
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Galway leads by 3 points.3
GalwayVancouver
Score5754
Price level global80.284
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Galway leads by 1 points.1
GalwayVancouver
Score5453
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months00
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
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
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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 2026-10 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

MeasureGalwayVancouver
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayVancouver
City population83,456662,248
People per km²1,5635,759
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2585
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. 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.