VacationSelector

Galway or Yokohama?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

GalwayYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 2 points.2
GalwayYokohama
Score5149
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 41 points.41
GalwayYokohama
Score3778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1733,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2024
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 33 points.33
GalwayYokohama
Score2053
Museums within 10 km557
Museums within 2 km of centre531
Share of museums within 2 km %10054
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 48 points.48
GalwayYokohama
Score2674
Drinking venues within 4 km1852,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1531,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km833
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 3 points.3
GalwayYokohama
Score5558
Protected land share 50 km %
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8567
Park area within 2 km65 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 33 points.33
GalwayYokohama
Score2558
Tourist attractions within 2 km516
Park area within 2 km65 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Yokohama leads by 22 points.22
GalwayYokohama
Score2244
Notable places within 2 km1449
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 13 points.13
GalwayYokohama
Score5770
Price level global80.262.4
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
GalwayYokohama
Score5463
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm46 mm to 219 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
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayYokohama
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
12 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 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 2026-09 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

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 centre36 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2566
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.