VacationSelector

Glasgow or Tokyo?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

GlasgowTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 15 points.15
GlasgowTokyo
Score3621
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance3 km5 km
Water distance3 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 27 points.27
GlasgowTokyo
Score6390
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7406,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2925
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowTokyo
Score4566
Museums within 10 km32302
Museums within 2 km of centre1352
Share of museums within 2 km %4117
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 32 points.32
GlasgowTokyo
Score6395
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0786,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6543,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6144
Nightclubs within 4 km7358
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 20 points.20
GlasgowTokyo
Score3858
Protected land share 50 km %16—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9185
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 30 points.30
GlasgowTokyo
Score4171
Tourist attractions within 2 km1340
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km19
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 7 points.7
GlasgowTokyo
Score5360
Notable places within 2 km80121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowTokyo
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowTokyo
Score4364
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months00
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowTokyo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
7 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
1 stop
HND · 18 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

MeasureGlasgowTokyo
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation21 m6 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowTokyo
City population626,41014,264,798
People per km²1906,501
Museums within 10 km29191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre54125
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.