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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Las Vegas?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • families

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Las Vegas 25: Glasgow leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Las Vegas 68: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Las Vegas 25: Glasgow leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Las Vegas 25: Glasgow leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Las Vegas 38: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow and Las Vegas are level on 64.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Las Vegas 35: Glasgow leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Las Vegas.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowLas Vegas
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 m610 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowLas Vegas
City population626,410641,903
People per km²1901,843
Museums within 10 km2921
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.