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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Hong Kong?

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

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Hong Kong for

  • food and drink
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Hong Kong’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, Hong Kong 50: Hong Kong leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Hong Kong 90: Hong Kong leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Hong Kong 60: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Hong Kong 68: Hong Kong leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Hong Kong 80: Hong Kong leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Hong Kong 68: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Hong Kong 75: Hong Kong leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Hong Kong 97: Hong Kong leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Hong Kong 88: Hong Kong leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Hong Kong 27: Glasgow leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Hong Kong 55: Glasgow leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Hong Kong 42: Hong Kong leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Hong Kong.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on food and drink and 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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowHong Kong
Official languageEnglishStandard Chinese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999999
Elevation21 m7 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowHong Kong
City population626,4107,413,070
People per km²190-
Museums within 10 km2939
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.