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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Glasgow or Vienna?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Vienna for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Vienna 50: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Vienna 62: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Vienna 74: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Vienna 62: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Vienna 44: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Vienna.

Your match

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

Glasgow
57match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on wellness 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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowVienna
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowVienna
City population626,4102,028,289
People per km²1904,890
Museums within 10 km29152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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.