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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0.

Edinburgh or Florianopolis?

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 Edinburgh for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Florianopolis for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Florianopolis’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. Edinburgh 22, Florianopolis 85: Florianopolis leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Florianopolis 58: Florianopolis leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Florianopolis 33: Edinburgh leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Florianopolis 78: Florianopolis leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Florianopolis 50: Edinburgh leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Florianopolis 60: Edinburgh leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Florianopolis 28: Edinburgh leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Florianopolis 33: Edinburgh leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Florianopolis 28: Edinburgh leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Florianopolis 45: Florianopolis leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Florianopolis.

Your match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

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

Florianopolis
52match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEdinburghFlorianopolis
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 999Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation47 m3 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinationsHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghFlorianopolis
City population488,050587,486
People per km²1,884870
Museums within 10 km3211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 months

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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.