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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Jerusalem?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’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, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Jerusalem 66: Jerusalem leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Jerusalem 38: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Jerusalem 60: Glasgow leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Jerusalem 52: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Jerusalem 55: Glasgow leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Jerusalem 48: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Jerusalem 20: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Jerusalem 40: Glasgow leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Jerusalem 42: Jerusalem leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Jerusalem.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

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

Jerusalem
53match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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.

Jerusalem 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowJerusalem
Official languageEnglishHebrew
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 100, fire 102
Elevation21 m754 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowJerusalem
City population626,4101,050,151
People per km²1908,374
Museums within 10 km2969
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km27
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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.