VacationSelector

Glasgow or Thessaloniki?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GlasgowThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.19
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score3655
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km34
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score6350
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2915
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score4549
Museums within 10 km3234
Museums within 2 km of centre1322
Share of museums within 2 km %4165
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score6367
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0781,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6157
Nightclubs within 4 km7361
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score3865
Protected land share 50 km %1625
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9183
Park area within 2 km56 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow and Thessaloniki are level on 41.
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score4141
Tourist attractions within 2 km1316
Park area within 2 km56 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 3 points.3
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score5356
Notable places within 2 km8098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score5474
Price level global84.955.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 29 points.29
GlasgowThessaloniki
Score4372
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowThessaloniki
AthensATH
4 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
LarnacaLCA
5 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
2 h 5 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
HeraklionHER
4 h 25 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
PaphosPFO
5 h 0 m
€279-312
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€82-135
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MaltaMLA
3 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowThessaloniki
Official languageEnglishGreek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m6 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowThessaloniki
City population626,410309,617
People per km²19016,042
Museums within 10 km2931
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5445
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.