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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Lima?

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
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Lima 88: Lima leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Lima 66: Lima leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Lima 62: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Lima 45: Glasgow leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Lima 34: Glasgow leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Lima 42: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Lima 35: Glasgow leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Lima 52: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Lima 70: Lima leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Lima 53: Glasgow leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Lima 25: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Lima.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Lima
51match

Wins on food and drink 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowLima
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999111 or 911
Elevation21 m154 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowLima
City population626,4109,943,800
People per km²1903,721
Museums within 10 km2947
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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.