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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Stockholm?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Stockholm 57: Glasgow leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Stockholm 72: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Stockholm 68: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Stockholm 30: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Stockholm 65: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on wellness and beaches 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m22 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowStockholm
City population626,410984,748
People per km²1905,260
Museums within 10 km29266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.