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A jetty on the lagoon, Faro
FaroA jetty on the lagoon
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Faro by Efrem Efre, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Faro 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 Faro for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • 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. Faro 74, Glasgow 14: Faro leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Faro 48, Glasgow 52: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Faro 35, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Faro 32, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Faro 62, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Faro 64, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Faro 60, Glasgow 58: Faro leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Faro 60, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Faro 35, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Faro 60, Glasgow 46: Faro leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Faro 30, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Faro 33, Glasgow 28: Faro leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Faro and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Faro
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Faro in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °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

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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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). 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.

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.