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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Elbphilharmonie from the water, Hamburg
HamburgThe Elbphilharmonie from the water

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hamburg by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Hamburg?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Hamburg for

  • families
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Hamburg’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, Hamburg 28: Hamburg leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Hamburg 55: Hamburg leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow and Hamburg are level on 62.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Hamburg 76: Hamburg leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Hamburg 52: Glasgow leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Hamburg 70: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Hamburg 74: Hamburg leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Hamburg 65: Hamburg leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Hamburg 38: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Hamburg 44: Hamburg leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Hamburg.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Hamburg
Best match
60match

Wins on families and wellness 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

Hamburg in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowHamburg
Official languageEnglishGerman
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 m6 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowHamburg
City population626,4101,869,473
People per km²1902,476
Museums within 10 km2977
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. 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.

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.