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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Essaouira 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 Essaouira for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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. Essaouira 47, Glasgow 14: Essaouira leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Glasgow 52: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 59 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Glasgow 46: Essaouira leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Glasgow 28: Essaouira leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Essaouira
45match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
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

Essaouira 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 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. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraGlasgow
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112 or 999
Elevation11 m21 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraGlasgow
City population82,962626,410
People per km²16,592190
Museums within 10 km229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.