Climate Glasgow

The climate year of Glasgow

Glasgow, in Scottish Glesga, is the largest city in Scotland with about 600,000 inhabitants and thus 20% of the Scottish population lives in Glasgow. After London and Birmingham, it is the third largest city in the United Kingdom and larger than Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Glasgow means as much as "green place" with what the many parks are meant. The music and design city has universities, the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It is also, right after London, a popular city for shopping and also the center for alternative music. Snow Patrol, Amy Macdonald, and Biffy Clyro are all from Glasgow.

General information about Glasgow

In the center of the city is George Square with Glasgow City Hall. Many statues of great personalities stand here, such as James Watt, Sir Walter Scott and Queen Victoria. Right next to it is the main train station, airport buses depart from here, and the tourist information center sells tickets for public transportation and sightseeing. A few minutes away are the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden, of which Kibble Palace, with an area of 2137 square meters, is famous for its plants from New Zealand, Africa and Australia. The tropical pond with lily "Victoria Water Lily", which has enormously large leaves and blooms only briefly in summer, is the highlight in House 10. In summer, festivals and open-air concerts are held in the park. In the East End on High Street stands the city's largest church, Glasgow Cathedral, built between the 13th and 15th centuries and considered a masterpiece of Gothic-Scottish architecture. Right next to it on a hill is the Necropolis, a burial city,which should see especially art and architecture lovers

Tourism Glasgow

Scotland cannot be called a bathing paradise, as water temperatures show an icy 8 degrees in January and just 12 degrees in midsummer, July and August. Precipitation is in January on average 19 days and also in the remaining months falls on at least 10 days the rain. There is a very high humidity throughout the year from 87% to 68%. In total, about 1000 mm of precipitation falls within a year. The best time to travel to Glasgow is from June to August, when the average temperature is about 19 degrees. In all other months, temperatures drop below 10 degrees. In January, the thermometer shows just 5 degrees maximum temperature.