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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Glasgow or Hobart?

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

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Hobart for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Hobart leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Hobart 56: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Hobart 30: Glasgow leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Hobart 60: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Hobart 56: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Hobart 45: Glasgow leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Hobart 38: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Hobart 35: Glasgow leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Hobart 45: Glasgow leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Hobart 40: Hobart leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Hobart.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

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

Hobart
48match

Wins on beaches 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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowHobart
Official languageEnglishEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999000
Elevation21 m54 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowHobart
City population626,410197,451
People per km²190116
Museums within 10 km298
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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.