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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Windhoek?

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

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Glasgow leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Windhoek 36: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Windhoek 30: Glasgow leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Windhoek 25: Glasgow leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Windhoek 52: Glasgow leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Windhoek 14: Glasgow leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Windhoek 30: Glasgow leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Windhoek 22: Glasgow leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Windhoek 30: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Windhoek 18: Glasgow leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowWindhoek
Official languageEnglishEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m1,650 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowWindhoek
City population626,410486,169
People per km²19095
Museums within 10 km295
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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.