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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Lisbon?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Lisbon for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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, Lisbon 50: Lisbon leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow and Lisbon are level on 75.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Lisbon 82: Lisbon leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Lisbon 62: Lisbon leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Glasgow and Lisbon are level on 66.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Lisbon 60: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Lisbon 60: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Lisbon 36: Lisbon leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Lisbon.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches 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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowLisbon
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m100 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowLisbon
City population626,410545,796
People per km²1905,453
Museums within 10 km2980
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.

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.