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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius
VilniusVilnius Cathedral

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vilnius by Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Vilnius?

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

  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Vilnius for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Vilnius’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, Vilnius 17: Vilnius leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Vilnius 50: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Vilnius 66: Vilnius leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Vilnius 46: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Vilnius 52: Glasgow leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Vilnius 60: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Vilnius 44: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Vilnius 68: Vilnius leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Vilnius 38: Glasgow leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Vilnius 64: Vilnius leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Vilnius 54: Glasgow leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Vilnius 34: Vilnius leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Vilnius.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

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

Vilnius
49match

Wins on prices 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

Vilnius in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
90 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowVilnius
Official languageEnglishLithuanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m98 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowVilnius
City population626,410619,405
People per km²1901,545
Museums within 10 km2931
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.