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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Luang Prabang?

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

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Luang Prabang for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Luang Prabang’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 and Luang Prabang are level on 14.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Luang Prabang 42: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Luang Prabang 65: Luang Prabang leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Luang Prabang 8: Glasgow leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Luang Prabang 68: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Luang Prabang 35: Glasgow leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Luang Prabang 38: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Luang Prabang 50: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Luang Prabang 38: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Luang Prabang 80: Luang Prabang leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Luang Prabang 18: Glasgow leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Luang Prabang 60: Luang Prabang leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Luang Prabang.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

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

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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). Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowLuang Prabang
Official languageEnglishLao
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Lao Kip (LAK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999Police 191, ambulance 195, fire 190
Elevation21 m305 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowLuang Prabang
City population626,41053,792
People per km²190-
Museums within 10 km290
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.