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Fort Lauderdale or Glasgow?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Glasgow
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 48 points.48
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score8436
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km73
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 18 points.18
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score4563
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1829
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score2045
Museums within 10 km1432
Museums within 2 km of centre613
Share of museums within 2 km %4341
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score3463
Drinking venues within 4 km2591,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5661
Nightclubs within 4 km1873
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 43 points.43
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score8138
Protected land share 50 km %2016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %012
Land share of disc %5191
Park area within 2 km45 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 22 points.22
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score1941
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km45 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 53 points.53
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score053
Notable places within 2 km280
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Glasgow leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 33 points.33
Fort LauderdaleGlasgow
Score7643
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm102 mm to 207 mm
Dry months00
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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Daytime high, °C
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleGlasgow
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 45 m
€93-112
FLL · 7 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
CancunCUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
9 h 40 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleGlasgow
Official languageEnglish
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 centre125 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre2554
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.