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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • shopping

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. Bucharest 8, Glasgow 14: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Glasgow 52: Bucharest leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Glasgow 66: Bucharest leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Glasgow 46: Bucharest leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Glasgow 28: Bucharest leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Bucharest
51match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestGlasgow
Official languageRomanianEnglish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation70 m21 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestGlasgow
City population1,716,961626,410
People per km²7,597190
Museums within 10 km4129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.