Glasgow
City in United Kingdom: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Glasgow - aerial - 2025-04-17 12: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Glasgow is a city in United Kingdom, in Scotland. About 626,410 people live in the city proper, making it the 3rd largest city of United Kingdom in our atlas.
It lies at 55.87° N, 4.26° W, about 40 m (131 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/London time zone. At this high latitude, summer days are very long and winter days very short.
Location
Red dot: Glasgow. Green dots: other major cities of United Kingdom. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Glasgow has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 17°C (63°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about 1°C (33°F). Around 1,380 mm (54 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in United KingdomNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Edinburgh · 67 km
- Belfast · 175 km
- Bradford · 278 km
- Liverpool · 284 km
- Leeds · 285 km
- Birkenhead · 285 km
- Manchester · 293 km
- Sheffield · 326 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2648579 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q4093 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Glasgow - aerial - 2025-04-17 12: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hampden Park (Glasgow) aerial view cropped: Dan Kearney, cropped by Blackcat, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ibrox Inside: Archibald99, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - aerial - 2025-04-17: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Firhill No2: Andrew Hendo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, front view, 2018-06-27: BrainiacBlink, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Traffic cone wellington glasgow: Tup Wanders, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Wfm Glasgow Botanic Gardens: No machine-readable author provided. Finlay McWalter assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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