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Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Galway by Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Galway or Yokohama?

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
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Galway 45, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Galway 33, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Galway 50, Yokohama 44: Galway leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galway 78, Yokohama 66: Galway leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Galway 56, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Galway 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Galway 58, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Galway 38, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Galway 28, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galway 57, Yokohama 56: Galway leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galway 28, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galway and Yokohama.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families and wellness 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalwayYokohama
Official languageEnglish, IrishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m24 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayYokohama
City population83,4563,757,630
People per km²1,5638,585
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.