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Edinburgh or Miami?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

EdinburghMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 40 points.40
EdinburghMiami
Score5595
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2020
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghMiami
Score7065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 34 points.34
EdinburghMiami
Score5723
Museums within 10 km3028
Museums within 2 km of centre226
Share of museums within 2 km %7321
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghMiami
Score6450
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7453
Nightclubs within 4 km6563
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 37 points.37
EdinburghMiami
Score3572
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8548
Park area within 2 km166 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 28 points.28
EdinburghMiami
Score7244
Tourist attractions within 2 km8714
Park area within 2 km166 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghMiami
Score6042
Notable places within 2 km12645
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Edinburgh leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghMiami
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 23 points.23
EdinburghMiami
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Miami
No sunshine record

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

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghMiami
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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

MeasureEdinburghMiami
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation47 m2 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghMiami
City population488,050442,241
People per km²1,8843,046
Museums within 10 km3217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7839
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. 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.