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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Paris?

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
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Paris for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Glasgow leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Paris 96: Paris leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Paris 97: Paris leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Paris 80: Paris leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Paris 52: Glasgow leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Paris 92: Paris leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Paris 79: Paris leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Paris 88: Paris leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Paris 98: Paris leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Paris 25: Glasgow leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Paris 88: Paris leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Paris 40: Paris leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Paris.

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 prices with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights 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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowParis
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m27 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowParis
City population626,4102,103,778
People per km²19019,960
Museums within 10 km29251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. 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.

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.