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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Manila?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Manila for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Manila’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, Manila 12: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Manila 64: Manila leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Manila 54: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Manila 64: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Manila 40: Glasgow leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Manila 42: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Manila 42: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Manila 26: Glasgow leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Manila 60: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Manila 77: Manila leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Manila 50: Glasgow leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Manila 40: Manila leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Manila.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Manila
48match

Wins on prices 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

Manila in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
487 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowManila
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m9 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowManila
City population626,4101,902,590
People per km²19076,104
Museums within 10 km2927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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.