VacationSelector

Cadiz or Edinburgh?

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

Your match

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

CadizEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 15 points.15
CadizEdinburgh
Score7055
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2920
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 26 points.26
CadizEdinburgh
Score4470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3381,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 21 points.21
CadizEdinburgh
Score3657
Museums within 10 km2330
Museums within 2 km of centre1622
Share of museums within 2 km %7073
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 34 points.34
CadizEdinburgh
Score3064
Drinking venues within 4 km2411,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7374
Nightclubs within 4 km665
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 9 points.9
CadizEdinburgh
Score2635
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %4585
Park area within 2 km24 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 18 points.18
CadizEdinburgh
Score5472
Tourist attractions within 2 km8087
Park area within 2 km24 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 29 points.29
CadizEdinburgh
Score3160
Notable places within 2 km23126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 17 points.17
CadizEdinburgh
Score7154
Price level global60.884.9
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 32 points.32
CadizEdinburgh
Score8351
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm43 mm to 80 mm
Dry months50
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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Daytime high, °C
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
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. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizEdinburgh
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 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

MeasureCadizEdinburgh
Official languageSpanishEnglish
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
Elevation11 m47 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizEdinburgh
City population109,950488,050
People per km²9,0871,884
Museums within 10 km1132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2878
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.