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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Hoi An?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Hoi An for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Hoi An’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, Hoi An 72: Hoi An leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Hoi An 68: Hoi An leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Hoi An 66: Hoi An leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Hoi An 28: Glasgow leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Hoi An 63: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Hoi An 50: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Glasgow and Hoi An are level on 58.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Hoi An 48: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Hoi An 57: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Hoi An 88: Hoi An leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Hoi An 24: Glasgow leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Hoi An 65: Hoi An leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Hoi An.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Glasgow
57match

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

Hoi An
57match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowHoi An
Official languageEnglishVietnamese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Dong (VND)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation21 m13 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowHoi An
City population626,410121,716
People per km²190-
Museums within 10 km295
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.