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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Montego Bay?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Montego Bay 50: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Montego Bay 28: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Montego Bay 42: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Montego Bay 65: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Montego Bay 50: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Montego Bay 48: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Montego Bay 20: Glasgow leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Montego Bay 25: Glasgow leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Montego Bay 38: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Montego Bay 32: Glasgow leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Montego Bay.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine 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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowMontego Bay
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation21 m19 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowMontego Bay
City population626,410123,994
People per km²190-
Museums within 10 km290
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.