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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Narikala Fortress above the old town, Tbilisi
TbilisiNarikala Fortress above the old town

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tbilisi by ArtHouse Studio, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Tbilisi?

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

  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Tbilisi for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tbilisi’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, Tbilisi 7: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Tbilisi 72: Tbilisi leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow and Tbilisi are level on 62.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Tbilisi 70: Tbilisi leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Tbilisi 58: Glasgow leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Tbilisi 77: Tbilisi leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Tbilisi 45: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Tbilisi 52: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Tbilisi 42: Glasgow leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Tbilisi 80: Tbilisi leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Tbilisi 57: Glasgow leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Tbilisi 66: Tbilisi leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Tbilisi.

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 shopping and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tbilisi
57match

Wins on wellness 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

Tbilisi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
34 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Tbilisi: 1991-2020 normals, Tbilisi (13.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowTbilisi
Official languageEnglishGeorgian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Lari (GEL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m575 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTbilisi International Airport (TBS)15 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowTbilisi
City population626,4101,331,485
People per km²1901,849
Museums within 10 km2929
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.