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Glasgow or Limassol?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

GlasgowLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 43 points.43
GlasgowLimassol
Score3679
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km327
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 20 points.20
GlasgowLimassol
Score6343
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2919
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 1 points.1
GlasgowLimassol
Score4544
Museums within 10 km3217
Museums within 2 km of centre1310
Share of museums within 2 km %4159
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 24 points.24
GlasgowLimassol
Score6339
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6175
Nightclubs within 4 km7320
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowLimassol
Score3822
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9149
Park area within 2 km56 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 25 points.25
GlasgowLimassol
Score4116
Tourist attractions within 2 km133
Park area within 2 km56 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 39 points.39
GlasgowLimassol
Score5314
Notable places within 2 km809
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowLimassol
Score5470
Price level global84.961.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 42 points.42
GlasgowLimassol
Score4385
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BerlinBER
2 h 5 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
AthensATH
4 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 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

MeasureGlasgowLimassol
Official languageEnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m10 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowLimassol
City population626,410107,970
People per km²1902,405
Museums within 10 km292
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre5428
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.