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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Glasgow or Puerto Plata?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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, Puerto Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Puerto Plata 40: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Puerto Plata 35: Glasgow leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Puerto Plata 38: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Puerto Plata 68: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Puerto Plata 48: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Puerto Plata 57: Glasgow leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Puerto Plata 30: Glasgow leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Puerto Plata 30: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Puerto Plata 64: Puerto Plata leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Puerto Plata 18: Glasgow leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Puerto Plata 35: Puerto Plata leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Puerto Plata.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Plata 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). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowPuerto Plata
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m34 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowPuerto Plata
City population626,410-
People per km²190-
Museums within 10 km291
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.