VacationSelector

Berlin or Edinburgh?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BerlinEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
BerlinEdinburgh
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1720
Coast distance142 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Berlin and Edinburgh are level on 70.
BerlinEdinburgh
Score7070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 22 points.22
BerlinEdinburgh
Score7957
Museums within 10 km20030
Museums within 2 km of centre8122
Share of museums within 2 km %4173
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinEdinburgh
Score7664
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3474
Nightclubs within 4 km13565
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 14 points.14
BerlinEdinburgh
Score4935
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %161
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km141 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinEdinburgh
Score7672
Tourist attractions within 2 km5487
Park area within 2 km141 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 24 points.24
BerlinEdinburgh
Score8460
Notable places within 2 km486126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinEdinburgh
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 9 points.9
BerlinEdinburgh
Score6051
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm43 mm to 80 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinEdinburgh
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€86-132
BER · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 15 m
€145-185
BER · 19 km
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBerlinEdinburgh
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation34 m47 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinEdinburgh
City population3,782,202488,050
People per km²4,2441,884
Museums within 10 km15832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8678
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.