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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antwerp 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 Antwerp for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Glasgow for

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

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. Antwerp 15, Glasgow 14: Antwerp leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Glasgow 52: Antwerp leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Glasgow 62: Antwerp leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Glasgow 76: Antwerp leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Glasgow 58: Antwerp leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Glasgow 66: Antwerp leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Glasgow 64: Antwerp leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Glasgow 46: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Glasgow 28: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antwerp
55match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Glasgow
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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
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). 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.

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.