Glasgow International Comedy Festival fills nineteen days of March with stand-up, improv and sketch, from the King's Theatre to basement rooms. Here is the city round them: pick your show, see what is near its door, save the places you want and plan the hours either side.
Choose a show and every place below is measured from its room, or choose one of the festival's rooms yourself. Before or after the show, the planner on your Vision Board does the sums.
A show's published start time is not its door time or its end. Tickets and changes: the festival's own site.
The end time is yours to set: festivals publish starts, not finishes.
Thirty-four places, from a house built in 1471 to a basement club and a day at Loch Lomond. Each card's picture is its own pin.
34 places
Twenty-two free galleries, from fine art to Sir Roger the elephant and Ancient Egypt, with a Spitfire hanging in the West Court. Open 10am to 5pm, from 11am on Fridays and Sundays; some rooms are scaffolded for restoration, but it stays open.
Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AG
Glasgow's museum of transport and technology at Kelvin Harbour: a big collection of vehicles and a recreated street scene to walk down. Free, and no booking: just drop in.
100 Pointhouse Place, Glasgow G3 8RS
A 19th-century sailing ship built on the Clyde, moored beside the Riverside Museum. It now charges for entry, and its masts are down while it is restored.
150 Pointhouse Place, Glasgow G3 8RS
The Art Fund's Museum of the Year 2023: Chinese ceramics, medieval stained glass and Impressionist paintings in Pollok Country Park. Free; open 10am to 5pm, from 11am on Fridays and Sundays. The train from Glasgow Central to Pollokshaws West takes about 10 minutes.
Pollokshaws Road, Pollok Country Park, Glasgow G43 1AT
The city's contemporary art collection, in the former Royal Exchange on Royal Exchange Square. Free to go in.
Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH
What religion has meant in people's lives across the world and through time, in the Cathedral Precinct. Free, with no booking: just drop in.
Castle Street, Glasgow G4 0RH
The oldest house in Glasgow, built in 1471: life in the city five hundred years ago, with the St Nicholas Garden behind. Free.
Castle Street, Glasgow G4 0RB
Scotland's finest surviving medieval cathedral, with St Mungo's tomb in its Lower Church. Free: choose an entry slot online. Until the end of March, 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday and 1pm to 4pm on Sunday; services can change the hours.
Cathedral Precinct, Castle Street, Glasgow G4 0QZ
A Victorian cemetery spread over the hill beside the cathedral, with views across the city from the top. Open 7am to 4:30pm daily. Volunteer tours must be booked; 2027's dates aren't up yet.
Cathedral Precinct, off Castle Street, Glasgow G4 0UZ
At the heart of the University of Glasgow since 1807, now in its Gilbert Scott Building: gems, fossils and dinosaurs, Lord Kelvin's instruments and the Antonine Wall. Free, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow
Whistler, Mackintosh, Rembrandt and Rubens, free to see, and the Mackintosh House: the rooms Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald made their home, rebuilt inside the gallery, with a ticket of its own. Tuesday to Sunday.
Hillhead Street, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
Agnes Toward's flat, her home from 1911 to 1965, kept as it was: a time capsule of early 20th-century Glasgow. Open daily, 10am to 5pm (last entry 4:30pm); paid entry, no booking needed.
145 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow G3 6QN
Hands-on science and a planetarium across the Clyde from the SEC. Until 25 March it opens Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 3pm midweek and to 5pm at weekends; from 26 March, every day 10am to 5pm. Book online.
50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA
Free gardens on Great Western Road, with a heritage trail of almost 30 stops and the Kibble Palace glasshouse. The grounds open from 7am to dusk; the glasshouses close at 4:15pm in winter.
730 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 0UE
One of Glasgow's oldest quarters: cafés, shops and arts in fine old buildings, restaurants in former courts and banks, and Ingram Street for fashion.
Merchant City, Glasgow
A cobbled West End lane strung with fairy lights, with restaurants, bars and a small cinema.
Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 8SJ
Glasgow's original independent arthouse cinema, on Rose Street: see its showtimes.
12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
A live-music room on St Vincent Street since 1990; its listings have taken in a comedy night too, King Tut's Ha Ha Hut.
272A St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RL
A church of 1836 next door to the Barrowland, now live music, arts, comedy and theatre in the East End, with a bar and restaurant open seven days a week.
17 Bain Street, Glasgow G40 2JZ
An all-vegan café bar sharing its roof with the record shop Monorail Music, and a stage for bands. Open daily, to 10pm.
12 Kings Court, Glasgow G1 5RB
One of the longest-running underground dance clubs in the world, on Jamaica Street. Doors 11pm to 4am; strictly 18 and over. Fifteen steps down, with no wheelchair access.
22 Jamaica Street, Glasgow G1 4QD
A former galvanizers' yard and the warehouses that served the Clyde, now gigs, club nights and experimental art.
100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow G3 8QG
A Merchant City institution since 1979: Scottish produce on menus that change with the season, among Tim Stead's famous interior work. Closes at 3pm on Sunday and Monday, otherwise 10pm, 11pm Friday and Saturday; a card holds a booking.
64 Albion Street, Glasgow G1 1NY
Fresh pasta made by hand every day, on Mitchell Street. Open from 11am, to 10:30pm Sunday to Thursday and 11pm Friday and Saturday.
70 Mitchell Street, Glasgow G1 3LX
On Ashton Lane since 1971: Scotland's best ingredients cooked with imagination, in a courtyard full of greenery and little lights. Open to midnight, from 5pm on Monday and Tuesday and from noon the rest of the week.
12 Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 8SJ
Indian dishes as small plates, across from Kelvingrove. Book online; Monday to Thursday it closes between 2pm and 5pm.
1355 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AD
Hearty breakfasts, brunch and cakes made in the house, in a basement down from the Glasgow School of Art. Open 9am to 5pm, from 8:30am Friday to Sunday.
263 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6TT
Glasgow Museums' collections, from social history and Mackintosh to archaeology and furniture, on Argyle Street. Free; the store itself is seen on guided tours only.
Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AW
Miss Cranston's tearooms of 1903, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh with Margaret Macdonald, the Salon de Luxe among them. Lunch and afternoon tea from 11am, last booking 5pm: book ahead.
217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EX
An Italian coffee bar and pizzeria on Byres Road, open from breakfast to dinner, with wine or beer. Last kitchen orders are 8pm, 9pm on Friday and Saturday: eat before a late show.
205 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TN
A bar on Bath Street, the King's Theatre's own street: cask ales, beers, cocktails and wine, and a food menu. Open to midnight.
266 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JP
An independent music venue, bar and pizzeria a short walk from St George's Cross Subway, with bands most nights. Pizza until 9pm; the gig room is up a staircase, with no wheelchair access.
The Hug and Pint, Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9AW
A day out to one of Scotland's greatest castles, with its Great Hall and the Royal Palace, Mary Queen of Scots' childhood home. Daily 9:30am to 5pm in winter; book a timed ticket. It's about half a mile uphill from Stirling station.
Castle Wynd, Stirling FK8 1EJ
ScotRail runs from Glasgow Queen Street to Balloch in about 50 minutes, roughly every half hour; from the station it's a short walk to the loch's cruises and Balloch Castle Park. The national park is free.
Balloch, Loch Lomond, West Dunbartonshire
Every place round the venue you chose, at its straight-line distance. Streets, rivers and stairs make the real way longer: the route link on each card asks a map for it.
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The festival's dates, its venues and the shows listed here come from Glasgow International Comedy Festival's own pages: its schedule ↗ and its venues ↗. The shows are some of the festival's, not all of them. Checked 17 October 2026.
Every place links to its own site, which has the last word: hours, prices, bookings and what is on all change, so look before you set out. Distances here are straight lines between points on OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), never walking distances.
The pins' city scene is AI-assisted art from the Guide's own 103 city pins (see the Credits).
