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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Valletta?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Valletta 46: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Valletta 56: Glasgow leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Glasgow and Valletta are level on 76.
Good for families. Glasgow and Valletta are level on 58.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Valletta 62: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Valletta 38: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Valletta 44: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Valletta 32: Valletta leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Valletta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Glasgow
57match

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

Valletta
55match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowValletta
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m56 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowValletta
City population626,4105,197
People per km²1906,496
Museums within 10 km2916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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.