VacationSelector

Galway or Venice?

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 with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

GalwayVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 18 points.18
GalwayVenice
Score5169
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1320
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 8 points.8
GalwayVenice
Score3745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2010
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 52 points.52
GalwayVenice
Score2072
Museums within 10 km557
Museums within 2 km of centre545
Share of museums within 2 km %10079
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Venice leads by 9 points.9
GalwayVenice
Score2635
Drinking venues within 4 km185342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8389
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 38 points.38
GalwayVenice
Score5517
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8570
Park area within 2 km65 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 32 points.32
GalwayVenice
Score2557
Tourist attractions within 2 km572
Park area within 2 km65 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 61 points.61
GalwayVenice
Score2283
Notable places within 2 km14464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 11 points.11
GalwayVenice
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 12 points.12
GalwayVenice
Score5466
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 40 m
€107-148
1 stop
TSF · 26 km
NaplesNAP
3 h 15 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 20 m
€81
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 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

MeasureGalwayVenice
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayVenice
City population83,456250,369
People per km²1,563602
Museums within 10 km452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2546
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.