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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Singapore?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Singapore for

  • food and drink
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Singapore’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, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow and Singapore are level on 62.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Singapore 50: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Singapore 45: Glasgow leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Singapore 25: Glasgow leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Singapore 25: Glasgow leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Singapore 50: Glasgow leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Singapore.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Glasgow
57match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Singapore
57match

Wins on food and drink 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

Singapore in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowSingapore
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation21 m21 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowSingapore
City population626,4105,866,139
People per km²1908,158
Museums within 10 km2940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.