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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License.

Edinburgh or Goreme?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Goreme for

  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Goreme’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, Goreme 3: Edinburgh leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Goreme 20: Edinburgh leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Goreme 45: Edinburgh leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Goreme 5: Edinburgh leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Goreme 74: Edinburgh leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Goreme 70: Edinburgh leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Goreme 40: Edinburgh leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Goreme 40: Edinburgh leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Goreme 22: Edinburgh leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Goreme 58: Goreme leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Goreme 10: Edinburgh leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Goreme 42: Goreme leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Goreme.

Your match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Goreme
36match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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.

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEdinburghGoreme
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m1,100 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghGoreme
City population488,0502,000
People per km²1,88420
Museums within 10 km325
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.