VacationSelector

Bruges or Glasgow?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Glasgow
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

BrugesGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 28 points.28
BrugesGlasgow
Score836
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance14 km3 km
Water distance14 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 6 points.6
BrugesGlasgow
Score5763
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 12 points.12
BrugesGlasgow
Score5745
Museums within 10 km3032
Museums within 2 km of centre2413
Share of museums within 2 km %8041
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 29 points.29
BrugesGlasgow
Score3463
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8061
Nightclubs within 4 km873
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 12 points.12
BrugesGlasgow
Score2638
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %6591
Park area within 2 km59 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 19 points.19
BrugesGlasgow
Score6041
Tourist attractions within 2 km5213
Park area within 2 km59 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
BrugesGlasgow
Score4053
Notable places within 2 km4080
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 6 points.6
BrugesGlasgow
Score6054
Price level global76.284.9
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Bruges leads by 13 points.13
BrugesGlasgow
Score5643
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm102 mm to 207 mm
Dry months10
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBrugesGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
3 h 50 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

MeasureBrugesGlasgow
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
Elevation2 m21 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesGlasgow
City population118,509626,410
People per km²840190
Museums within 10 km3829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5154
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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