VacationSelector

Glasgow or Lyon?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

GlasgowLyon
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowLyon
Score360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km326
Coast distance3 km253 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowLyon
Score6379
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7401,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2940
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
GlasgowLyon
Score4555
Museums within 10 km3253
Museums within 2 km of centre1325
Share of museums within 2 km %4147
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowLyon
Score6358
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6171
Nightclubs within 4 km7347
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowLyon
Score3833
Protected land share 50 km %166
Landscape blanket share 50 km %126
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 18 points.18
GlasgowLyon
Score4159
Tourist attractions within 2 km1325
Park area within 2 km56 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 1 points.1
GlasgowLyon
Score5354
Notable places within 2 km8086
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
GlasgowLyon
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowLyon
Score4364
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm43 mm to 101 mm
Dry months00
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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 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

MeasureGlasgowLyon
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m160 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowLyon
City population626,410519,127
People per km²19010,838
Museums within 10 km2942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre54148
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.