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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
Naples, FloridaNaples Pier over turquoise water

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Naples, Florida by William “Patrick” Ma…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Naples, Florida?

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

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Naples, Florida for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples, Florida’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, Naples, Florida 87: Naples, Florida leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Naples, Florida 46: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Naples, Florida 27: Glasgow leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Naples, Florida 20: Glasgow leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Naples, Florida 66: Glasgow leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Naples, Florida 43: Glasgow leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Naples, Florida 64: Naples, Florida leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Naples, Florida 22: Glasgow leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Naples, Florida 48: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Naples, Florida 17: Glasgow leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Naples, Florida 40: Glasgow leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Naples, Florida 45: Naples, Florida leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Naples, Florida.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Naples, Florida
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

Naples, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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.

Naples, Florida 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Naples, Florida: 2002-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Naples / East Naples (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowNaples, Florida
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m-2 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowNaples, Florida
City population626,41019,115
People per km²190450
Museums within 10 km294
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone10 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.