VacationSelector

Glasgow or Interlaken?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Glasgow
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GlasgowInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowInterlaken
Score360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km312
Coast distance3 km713 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 34 points.34
GlasgowInterlaken
Score6329
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2917
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 22 points.22
GlasgowInterlaken
Score4523
Museums within 10 km325
Museums within 2 km of centre132
Share of museums within 2 km %4140
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 59 points.59
GlasgowInterlaken
Score634
Drinking venues within 4 km1,07842
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre65438
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6190
Nightclubs within 4 km733
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 11 points.11
GlasgowInterlaken
Score3827
Protected land share 50 km %1619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 27 points.27
GlasgowInterlaken
Score4114
Tourist attractions within 2 km1311
Park area within 2 km56 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 31 points.31
GlasgowInterlaken
Score5322
Notable places within 2 km8014
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Glasgow leads by 19 points.19
GlasgowInterlaken
Score5435
Price level global84.9110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 14 points.14
GlasgowInterlaken
Score4357
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
2 h 5 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowInterlaken
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m571 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowInterlaken
City population626,4106,123
People per km²1901,424
Museums within 10 km293
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre5422
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.