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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Manaus?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Manaus for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Manaus’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, Manaus 38: Manaus leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Manaus 46: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Manaus 42: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Manaus 12: Glasgow leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Manaus 35: Glasgow leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Manaus 27: Glasgow leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Manaus 36: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Manaus 54: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Manaus 20: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Manaus.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowManaus
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112 or 999Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation21 m92 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowManaus
City population626,4102,303,732
People per km²190202
Museums within 10 km2913
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.