VacationSelector

Bologna or Glasgow?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

BolognaGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
BolognaGlasgow
Score036
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km23
Coast distance74 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 5 points.5
BolognaGlasgow
Score5863
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 22 points.22
BolognaGlasgow
Score6745
Museums within 10 km5832
Museums within 2 km of centre4313
Share of museums within 2 km %7441
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 10 points.10
BolognaGlasgow
Score5363
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7461
Nightclubs within 4 km3073
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 1 points.1
BolognaGlasgow
Score3938
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %112
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km119 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaGlasgow
Score5541
Tourist attractions within 2 km3213
Park area within 2 km119 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaGlasgow
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12080
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaGlasgow
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 24 points.24
BolognaGlasgow
Score6743
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm102 mm to 207 mm
Dry months50
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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Daytime high, °C
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
€96-199
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 118 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 118 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaGlasgow
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation54 m21 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaGlasgow
City population387,971626,410
People per km²2,754190
Museums within 10 km6629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6254
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.