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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fukuoka 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 Fukuoka for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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. Fukuoka 50, Glasgow 14: Fukuoka leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Glasgow 52: Fukuoka leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Glasgow 76: Fukuoka leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Glasgow 58: Fukuoka leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Glasgow 66: Fukuoka leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Glasgow 64: Fukuoka leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Glasgow 46: Fukuoka leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Glasgow 28: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Glasgow
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaGlasgow
Official languageJapaneseEnglish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation8 m21 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaGlasgow
City population1,603,043626,410
People per km²4,715190
Museums within 10 km2329
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.