VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Ljubljana?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

EdinburghLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghLjubljana
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance3 km72 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghLjubljana
Score7055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3540
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghLjubljana
Score5755
Museums within 10 km3026
Museums within 2 km of centre2223
Share of museums within 2 km %7388
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghLjubljana
Score6445
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km6524
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghLjubljana
Score3540
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %15
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 34 points.34
EdinburghLjubljana
Score7238
Tourist attractions within 2 km8712
Park area within 2 km166 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghLjubljana
Score6058
Notable places within 2 km126109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghLjubljana
Score5472
Price level global84.959.6
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Ljubljana leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghLjubljana
Score5156
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm67 mm to 159 mm
Dry months00
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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghLjubljana
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
DubrovnikDBV
3 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
SplitSPU
3 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 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 2026-09 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

MeasureEdinburghLjubljana
Official languageEnglishSlovene
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m309 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghLjubljana
City population488,050284,293
People per km²1,8841,736
Museums within 10 km3214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre7863
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. 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. 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.