VacationSelector

Glasgow or Malaga?

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 sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

GlasgowMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 30 points.30
GlasgowMalaga
Score3666
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km321
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 6 points.6
GlasgowMalaga
Score6369
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7401,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2934
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 8 points.8
GlasgowMalaga
Score4553
Museums within 10 km3240
Museums within 2 km of centre1335
Share of museums within 2 km %4188
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 9 points.9
GlasgowMalaga
Score6354
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6168
Nightclubs within 4 km7345
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowMalaga
Score3843
Protected land share 50 km %167
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9163
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 12 points.12
GlasgowMalaga
Score4153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1333
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowMalaga
Score5337
Notable places within 2 km8033
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
GlasgowMalaga
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 39 points.39
GlasgowMalaga
Score4382
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months05
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureGlasgowMalaga
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m18 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowMalaga
City population626,410599,063
People per km²1901,517
Museums within 10 km2932
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5465
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.