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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Osaka?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Osaka for

  • food and drink
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Osaka 58: Glasgow leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Osaka 66: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Osaka.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on food and drink 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

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowOsaka
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation21 m20 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowOsaka
City population626,4102,751,862
People per km²19012,340
Museums within 10 km2944
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.