VacationSelector

Glasgow or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

GlasgowKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 19 points.19
GlasgowKyoto
Score3617
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance3 km47 km
Water distance3 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowKyoto
Score6384
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7405,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2922
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
GlasgowKyoto
Score4572
Museums within 10 km32132
Museums within 2 km of centre1351
Share of museums within 2 km %4139
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
GlasgowKyoto
Score6380
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0783,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6542,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6173
Nightclubs within 4 km7326
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowKyoto
Score3822
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %122
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 25 points.25
GlasgowKyoto
Score4166
Tourist attractions within 2 km1362
Park area within 2 km56 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 1 points.1
GlasgowKyoto
Score5352
Notable places within 2 km8079
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowKyoto
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 19 points.19
GlasgowKyoto
Score4362
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm40 mm to 232 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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowKyoto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 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

MeasureGlasgowKyoto
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation21 m51 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowKyoto
City population626,4101,463,723
People per km²1901,768
Museums within 10 km2976
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre5489
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.