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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Glasgow or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow and San Miguel de Allende are level on 62.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, San Miguel de Allende 38: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, San Miguel de Allende 40: Glasgow leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, San Miguel de Allende 32: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, San Miguel de Allende 48: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, San Miguel de Allende 55: Glasgow leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, San Miguel de Allende 40: Glasgow leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and San Miguel de Allende.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness and food and drink 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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m1,900 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowSan Miguel de Allende
City population626,41069,811
People per km²190-
Museums within 10 km292
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.