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The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • 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. Fort Lauderdale 88, Glasgow 14: Fort Lauderdale leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Fort Lauderdale 47, Glasgow 52: Glasgow leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Lauderdale 28, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale 52, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Lauderdale 62, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Fort Lauderdale 58, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale 66, Glasgow 58: Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Fort Lauderdale 32, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Lauderdale 52, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Fort Lauderdale 32, Glasgow 46: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Lauderdale 42, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Lauderdale 40, Glasgow 28: Fort Lauderdale leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Lauderdale and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Fort Lauderdale
50match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort LauderdaleGlasgow
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation11 m21 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleGlasgow
City population182,760626,410
People per km²1,829190
Museums within 10 km629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.