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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Delhi 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 Delhi for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • nightlife

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. Delhi 4, Glasgow 14: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Glasgow 52: Delhi leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Glasgow 62: Delhi leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Glasgow 64: Delhi leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Glasgow 46: Delhi leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Glasgow 28: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Delhi
53match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiGlasgow
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112 or 999
Elevation221 m21 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiGlasgow
City population26,495,000626,410
People per km²18,962190
Museums within 10 km2329
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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