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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Atlanta 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 Atlanta for

  • food and drink
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • 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. Atlanta 10, Glasgow 14: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Glasgow 52: Atlanta leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Glasgow 58: Atlanta leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Glasgow 46: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Glasgow 28: Atlanta leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Atlanta
49match

Wins on food and drink and families with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 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

Atlanta 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. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaGlasgow
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation225 m21 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaGlasgow
City population498,715626,410
People per km²1,433190
Museums within 10 km2729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.