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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Tunis?

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
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Tunis 33: Glasgow leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Tunis 45: Glasgow leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Tunis 38: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Tunis 48: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Tunis 50: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Tunis 38: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Tunis.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Glasgow
57match

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

Tunis
56match

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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowTunis
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112 or 999Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation21 m4 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowTunis
City population626,410602,560
People per km²1902,834
Museums within 10 km2916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.