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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Huntington Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Huntington Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Huntington Beach’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, Huntington Beach 70: Huntington Beach leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Huntington Beach 46: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Huntington Beach 14: Glasgow leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Huntington Beach 38: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Huntington Beach 58: Glasgow leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Huntington Beach 63: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Huntington Beach 82: Huntington Beach leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Huntington Beach 20: Glasgow leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Huntington Beach 42: Glasgow leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Huntington Beach 28: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Huntington Beach 33: Glasgow leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Huntington Beach 36: Huntington Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Huntington Beach.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Huntington Beach
44match

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

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 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). Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowHuntington Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m12 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowHuntington Beach
City population626,410198,711
People per km²1902,406
Museums within 10 km293
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.