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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Tirana?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Tirana for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Tirana leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Tirana 42: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Tirana 58: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Tirana 62: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Tirana 64: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Tirana 40: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Tirana 54: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Tirana 32: Glasgow leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Tirana 32: Glasgow leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Tirana 27: Glasgow leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Tirana.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Tirana
49match

Wins on beaches 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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowTirana
Official languageEnglishAlbanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Lek (ALL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m110 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowTirana
City population626,410389,323
People per km²1909,314
Museums within 10 km2911
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.