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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • 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. Florianopolis 85, Glasgow 14: Florianopolis leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Glasgow 52: Florianopolis leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Glasgow 75: Florianopolis leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Glasgow 58: Florianopolis leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Glasgow 46: Florianopolis leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Glasgow 28: Florianopolis leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisGlasgow
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCN60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112 or 999
Elevation3 m21 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisGlasgow
City population587,486626,410
People per km²870190
Museums within 10 km1129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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). 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. 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.