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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agra 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 Agra for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Edinburgh for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Agra 3, Edinburgh 22: Edinburgh leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Edinburgh 53: Edinburgh leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Edinburgh 75: Agra leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Edinburgh 62: Edinburgh leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Edinburgh 30: Agra leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Edinburgh 34: Edinburgh leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Edinburgh.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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

Agra 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 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. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraEdinburgh
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112 or 999
Elevation171 m47 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraEdinburgh
City population1,585,705488,050
People per km²8,4171,884
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.