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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Perth?

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

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Perth for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Perth leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Perth 58: Perth leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Perth 42: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Perth 42: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Perth 72: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Perth 48: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Perth 74: Perth leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Perth 55: Glasgow leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Perth 44: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Perth 28: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Perth 50: Glasgow leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Perth 38: Perth leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Perth.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Perth
53match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowPerth
Official languageEnglishEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999000
Elevation21 m2 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowPerth
City population626,4102,141,834
People per km²190334
Museums within 10 km2915
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.