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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Agra or Glasgow?

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 Agra for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’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. Agra 3, Glasgow 14: Glasgow leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Glasgow 52: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Glasgow 62: Agra leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 59 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Glasgow 46: Agra leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Glasgow 28: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Glasgow.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Agra
36match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra 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.

Glasgow 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.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraGlasgow
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112 or 999
Elevation171 m21 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraGlasgow
City population1,585,705626,410
People per km²8,417190
Museums within 10 km029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.