VacationSelector

Glasgow or Munich?

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.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
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.

GlasgowMunich
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowMunich
Score360
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km36
Coast distance3 km579 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 10 points.10
GlasgowMunich
Score6373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7401,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowMunich
Score4561
Museums within 10 km3274
Museums within 2 km of centre1348
Share of museums within 2 km %4165
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Munich leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowMunich
Score6367
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0781,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6157
Nightclubs within 4 km73103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 10 points.10
GlasgowMunich
Score3848
Protected land share 50 km %1617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1215
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 38 points.38
GlasgowMunich
Score4179
Tourist attractions within 2 km1380
Park area within 2 km56 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 15 points.15
GlasgowMunich
Score5368
Notable places within 2 km80196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 6 points.6
GlasgowMunich
Score5460
Price level global84.975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Munich leads by 13 points.13
GlasgowMunich
Score4356
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€207-225
MUC · 29 km
BerlinBER
2 h 5 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureGlasgowMunich
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m519 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowMunich
City population626,4101,510,378
People per km²1904,861
Museums within 10 km2974
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5489
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.