VacationSelector

Glasgow or Milan?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

GlasgowMilan
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowMilan
Score360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance3 km120 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 7 points.7
GlasgowMilan
Score6370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7401,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2920
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 29 points.29
GlasgowMilan
Score4574
Museums within 10 km3287
Museums within 2 km of centre1355
Share of museums within 2 km %4163
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Milan leads by 12 points.12
GlasgowMilan
Score6375
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0782,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6143
Nightclubs within 4 km7370
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 27 points.27
GlasgowMilan
Score3865
Protected land share 50 km %1630
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1211
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowMilan
Score4177
Tourist attractions within 2 km1376
Park area within 2 km56 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowMilan
Score5374
Notable places within 2 km80266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 14 points.14
GlasgowMilan
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowMilan
Score4364
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm44 mm to 127 mm
Dry months00
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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BGY · 46 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

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 centre203 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 km2987
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre5479
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.