VacationSelector

Glasgow or Granada?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

GlasgowGranada
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowGranada
Score360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance3 km48 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowGranada
Score6367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2934
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 3 points.3
GlasgowGranada
Score4548
Museums within 10 km3228
Museums within 2 km of centre1326
Share of museums within 2 km %4193
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 11 points.11
GlasgowGranada
Score6352
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6178
Nightclubs within 4 km7346
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 25 points.25
GlasgowGranada
Score3863
Protected land share 50 km %1627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9196
Park area within 2 km56 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 15 points.15
GlasgowGranada
Score4156
Tourist attractions within 2 km1360
Park area within 2 km56 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 9 points.9
GlasgowGranada
Score5344
Notable places within 2 km8050
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 17 points.17
GlasgowGranada
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 31 points.31
GlasgowGranada
Score4374
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months07
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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Granada
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGlasgowGranada
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m693 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowGranada
City population626,410233,975
People per km²1902,659
Museums within 10 km2919
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5462
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.