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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Santa Fe?

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

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Glasgow leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Santa Fe 22: Glasgow leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Santa Fe 70: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Santa Fe 45: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Santa Fe 40: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Santa Fe 62: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Santa Fe 30: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Santa Fe 55: Glasgow leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowSanta Fe
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation21 m2,134 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowSanta Fe
City population626,41087,505
People per km²190645
Museums within 10 km2910
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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.