VacationSelector

Brussels or Glasgow?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BrusselsGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
BrusselsGlasgow
Score036
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance56 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 18 points.18
BrusselsGlasgow
Score8163
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4429
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 35 points.35
BrusselsGlasgow
Score8045
Museums within 10 km12032
Museums within 2 km of centre5913
Share of museums within 2 km %4941
Unesco sites within 50 km102
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 5 points.5
BrusselsGlasgow
Score6863
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4141,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6161
Nightclubs within 4 km8473
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 7 points.7
BrusselsGlasgow
Score3138
Protected land share 50 km %616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %112
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km65 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 15 points.15
BrusselsGlasgow
Score5641
Tourist attractions within 2 km2813
Park area within 2 km65 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 20 points.20
BrusselsGlasgow
Score7353
Notable places within 2 km25480
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 6 points.6
BrusselsGlasgow
Score6054
Price level global76.284.9
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Brussels leads by 14 points.14
BrusselsGlasgow
Score5743
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm102 mm to 207 mm
Dry months00
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 45 m
€177-223
BRU · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 25 m
€114-153
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
7 h 30 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

MeasureBrusselsGlasgow
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
Elevation70 m21 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsGlasgow
City population195,546626,410
People per km²5,908190
Museums within 10 km10529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km102
Distinct cuisines in the centre10954
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.