Glasgow

Climate and weather

Scotland has a reputation for being cold, windy and rainy. To a large extent this is fair, and Glasgow is at the centre of it all. Okay, so it is not as cold as the highlands, but the rain blows relentlessly off the Atlantic all winter, and for the annual three weeks which Glaswegians insist on calling summer, the air is humid. Not that this is some hell-hole - at the worst times of year it rarely gets cold enough for the locals to go out in anything warmer than a t-shirt, and the sun is comfortable without beating relentlessly down. Just don't expect to come away saying that the weather was lovely.