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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Valencia?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow and Valencia are level on 66.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Valencia 60: Glasgow leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Valencia 70: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Valencia 57: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Valencia 55: Glasgow leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Valencia.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowValencia
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m15 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowValencia
City population626,410840,792
People per km²1906,242
Museums within 10 km2945
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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.