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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Halifax?

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 Glasgow for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Halifax for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Halifax’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. Glasgow 14, Halifax 32: Halifax leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Halifax 50: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Halifax 42: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Halifax 46: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Halifax 62: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Halifax 63: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Halifax 55: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Halifax 48: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Halifax 35: Glasgow leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Halifax 38: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Halifax 46: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow and Halifax are level on 28.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Halifax.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Halifax
45match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowHalifax
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m28 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowHalifax
City population626,410440,072
People per km²19080
Museums within 10 km2915
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

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. 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. 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.