VacationSelector

Antwerp or Glasgow?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

AntwerpGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
AntwerpGlasgow
Score036
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance21 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 12 points.12
AntwerpGlasgow
Score7563
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4229
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 24 points.24
AntwerpGlasgow
Score6945
Museums within 10 km4132
Museums within 2 km of centre2713
Share of museums within 2 km %6641
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpGlasgow
Score5963
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7661
Nightclubs within 4 km7373
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpGlasgow
Score3438
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %8091
Park area within 2 km53 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpGlasgow
Score4641
Tourist attractions within 2 km1413
Park area within 2 km53 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpGlasgow
Score5453
Notable places within 2 km8880
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpGlasgow
Score6054
Price level global76.284.9
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 15 points.15
AntwerpGlasgow
Score5843
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm102 mm to 207 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ANR · 6 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
CancunCUN
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureAntwerpGlasgow
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation7 m21 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpGlasgow
City population529,247626,410
People per km²2,542190
Museums within 10 km3829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Distinct cuisines in the centre8054
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. 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. 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.