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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Honolulu?

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

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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

Choose Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Honolulu’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, Honolulu 91: Honolulu leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Honolulu 70: Honolulu leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Honolulu 55: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Honolulu 45: Glasgow leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Honolulu 88: Honolulu leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Honolulu 38: Glasgow leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Honolulu 80: Honolulu leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Honolulu 52: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Honolulu 60: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Honolulu 15: Glasgow leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Honolulu 40: Glasgow leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Honolulu 50: Honolulu leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Honolulu.

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 day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Honolulu
57match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °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). Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowHonolulu
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-10
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m12 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowHonolulu
City population626,410350,964
People per km²1901,981
Museums within 10 km2912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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.