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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo, Merida
MeridaThe yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Merida by Mariposa2723, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Merida?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Merida for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Merida’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, Merida 50: Merida leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Merida 72: Merida leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Merida 64: Merida leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Merida 42: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Merida 48: Glasgow leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Merida 80: Merida leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Merida 50: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Merida 45: Glasgow leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Merida 50: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Merida 75: Merida leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Merida 52: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Merida 40: Merida leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Merida.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Glasgow
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife with your weighting.

Merida
56match

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

Merida in July

35 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
148 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °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). Merida: 1991-2020 normals, Merida / lic Manuel Crecencio (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowMerida
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m12 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsManuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (MID)5 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowMerida
City population626,410892,363
People per km²1901,010
Museums within 10 km295
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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.