VacationSelector

Glasgow or Kuala Lumpur?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

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Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Beaches & swimming. Kuala Lumpur leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score3640
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance3 km38 km
Water distance3 km36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 15 points.15
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score6378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7402,358
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2928
Museums & heritage. Kuala Lumpur leads by 6 points.6
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score4551
Museums within 10 km3241
Museums within 2 km of centre1326
Share of museums within 2 km %4163
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score6367
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0781,308
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654735
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6156
Nightclubs within 4 km73126
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 31 points.31
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score3869
Protected land share 50 km %1628
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9197
Park area within 2 km56 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 19 points.19
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score4160
Tourist attractions within 2 km1326
Park area within 2 km56 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 2 points.2
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score5351
Notable places within 2 km8075
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 38 points.38
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score5492
Price level global84.930.6
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Kuala Lumpur leads by 9 points.9
GlasgowKuala Lumpur
Score4352
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C31.9 °C to 33.7 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm145 mm to 360 mm
Dry months00
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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Kuala Lumpur
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). Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowKuala Lumpur
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 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

MeasureGlasgowKuala Lumpur
Official languageEnglishMalay
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999999
Elevation21 m50 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days–

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowKuala Lumpur
City population626,4109,000,280
People per km²19036,932
Museums within 10 km2925
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5469
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. 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.