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Edinburgh or Stuttgart?

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.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

EdinburghStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghStuttgart
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km203
Coast distance3 km476 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghStuttgart
Score7059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 1 points.1
EdinburghStuttgart
Score5756
Museums within 10 km3065
Museums within 2 km of centre2221
Share of museums within 2 km %7332
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghStuttgart
Score6449
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7471
Nightclubs within 4 km6553
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 45 points.45
EdinburghStuttgart
Score3580
Protected land share 50 km %251
Landscape blanket share 50 km %131
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 27 points.27
EdinburghStuttgart
Score7245
Tourist attractions within 2 km8711
Park area within 2 km166 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 16 points.16
EdinburghStuttgart
Score6044
Notable places within 2 km12650
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghStuttgart
Score5460
Price level global84.975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 12 points.12
EdinburghStuttgart
Score5163
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months03
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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghStuttgart
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 10 km
BerlinBER
2 h 0 m
€141-162
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€197-289
1 stop
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 45 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 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

MeasureEdinburghStuttgart
Official languageEnglishGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghStuttgart
City population488,050633,484
People per km²1,8843,054
Museums within 10 km3242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre7859
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.