VacationSelector

Faro or Glasgow?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Faro
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

FaroGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 25 points.25
FaroGlasgow
Score6136
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 19 points.19
FaroGlasgow
Score4463
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2229
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 23 points.23
FaroGlasgow
Score2245
Museums within 10 km932
Museums within 2 km of centre813
Share of museums within 2 km %8941
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 42 points.42
FaroGlasgow
Score2163
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8661
Nightclubs within 4 km873
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 19 points.19
FaroGlasgow
Score5738
Protected land share 50 km %1116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %4291
Park area within 2 km34 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 5 points.5
FaroGlasgow
Score3641
Tourist attractions within 2 km1013
Park area within 2 km34 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 31 points.31
FaroGlasgow
Score2253
Notable places within 2 km1480
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroGlasgow
Score7454
Price level global55.984.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 40 points.40
FaroGlasgow
Score8343
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm102 mm to 207 mm
Dry months60
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
3 h 0 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
6 h 55 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFaroGlasgow
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation10 m21 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroGlasgow
City population64,560626,410
People per km²319190
Museums within 10 km229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3454
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.