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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Castelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige, Verona
VeronaCastelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Verona by NorbertNagel, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Verona?

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

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Verona for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Verona’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, Verona 44: Verona leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Verona 66: Verona leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Verona 76: Verona leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Verona 37: Glasgow leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Verona 65: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Verona 92: Verona leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Verona 66: Verona leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Verona 68: Verona leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Verona 52: Glasgow leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Glasgow and Verona are level on 46.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Verona 66: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Verona 48: Verona leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Verona.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

Verona
Best match
61match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Verona in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowVerona
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m59 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowVerona
City population626,410255,588
People per km²1901,285
Museums within 10 km2918
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.