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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
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Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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. Bangkok 12, Glasgow 14: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Glasgow 52: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Glasgow 62: Bangkok leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Glasgow 66: Bangkok leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Glasgow 64: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Glasgow 46: Bangkok leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Glasgow 28: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness 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.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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

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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokGlasgow
Official languageThaiEnglish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112 or 999
Elevation2 m21 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokGlasgow
City population5,676,648626,410
People per km²3,619190
Museums within 10 km5929
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.