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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Glasgow or New Orleans?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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 and New Orleans are level on 14.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, New Orleans 42: Glasgow leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, New Orleans 52: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, New Orleans 55: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, New Orleans 55: Glasgow leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, New Orleans 54: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, New Orleans 40: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, New Orleans 25: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
54match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowNew Orleans
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m-2 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowNew Orleans
City population626,410383,997
People per km²190423
Museums within 10 km2916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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.