VacationSelector

Galway or Zadar?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

GalwayZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 22 points.22
GalwayZadar
Score5173
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1349
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Galway leads by 12 points.12
GalwayZadar
Score3725
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2011
Museums & heritage. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
GalwayZadar
Score2033
Museums within 10 km58
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %100100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Galway leads by 1 points.1
GalwayZadar
Score2625
Drinking venues within 4 km185194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8372
Nightclubs within 4 km84
Nature & day trips. Galway and Zadar are level on 55.
GalwayZadar
Score5555
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8547
Park area within 2 km65 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Zadar leads by 6 points.6
GalwayZadar
Score2531
Tourist attractions within 2 km59
Park area within 2 km65 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
GalwayZadar
Score2231
Notable places within 2 km1423
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 23 points.23
GalwayZadar
Score5780
Price level global80.248.5
Daily budget€187€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 15 points.15
GalwayZadar
Score5469
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 mm25 mm to 117 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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
€69-120
ZAD · 10 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureGalwayZadar
Official languageEnglish, IrishCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m5 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayZadar
City population83,45670,779
People per km²1,563
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2517
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.