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The beach with the bay and the skyline behind, Acapulco
AcapulcoThe beach with the bay and the skyline behind
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Acapulco by Felicia Navarrete, Pexels License; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Acapulco or Edinburgh?

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 Acapulco for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Edinburgh for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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. Acapulco 80, Edinburgh 22: Acapulco leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Acapulco 55, Edinburgh 53: Acapulco leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Acapulco 28, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Acapulco 64, Edinburgh 50: Acapulco leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Acapulco 50, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Acapulco 15, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Acapulco 45, Edinburgh 62: Edinburgh leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Acapulco 30, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Acapulco 32, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Acapulco 74, Edinburgh 30: Acapulco leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Acapulco 26, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Acapulco 32, Edinburgh 34: Edinburgh leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Acapulco and Edinburgh.

Your match

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

Acapulco
44match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Acapulco in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
226 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Acapulco: 1991-2020 normals, Acapulco, Gro. (5.9 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAcapulcoEdinburgh
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation18 m47 m
Main airportGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International Airport (ACA)18 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAcapulcoEdinburgh
City population658,609488,050
People per km²3501,884
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.