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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Milan?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Milan for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’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, Milan 20: Milan leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Milan 78: Milan leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Milan 78: Milan leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow and Milan are level on 66.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Milan 65: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Milan 91: Milan leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Milan 55: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Milan 79: Milan leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Milan 92: Milan leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Milan 33: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Milan 82: Milan leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Milan 42: Milan leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Milan.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

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

Milan
Best match
65match

Wins on shopping 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

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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.

Milan 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.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowMilan
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m138 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowMilan
City population626,4101,354,196
People per km²1907,453
Museums within 10 km2988
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
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. 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.

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.