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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Warsaw?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow and Warsaw are level on 66.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Warsaw 47: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Warsaw 52: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Warsaw 55: Glasgow leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Warsaw 63: Glasgow leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Warsaw 35: Warsaw leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Warsaw.

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 nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Warsaw
55match

Wins on prices 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowWarsaw
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m118 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowWarsaw
City population626,4101,862,402
People per km²1903,601
Museums within 10 km29117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.