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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
Neues Schloss with magnolias in bloom, Stuttgart
StuttgartNeues Schloss with magnolias in bloom

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Stuttgart by Baden de, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Edinburgh or Stuttgart?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Stuttgart for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Stuttgart’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, Stuttgart 8: Edinburgh leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Stuttgart 62: Edinburgh leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Stuttgart 42: Edinburgh leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Stuttgart 60: Edinburgh leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Stuttgart 80: Stuttgart leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Stuttgart 66: Stuttgart leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Stuttgart 72: Edinburgh leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Stuttgart 40: Stuttgart leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Stuttgart 74: Stuttgart leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Stuttgart 64: Stuttgart leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Stuttgart.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Edinburgh
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Stuttgart
57match

Wins on wellness 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

Stuttgart in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
79 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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 centre163 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghStuttgart
City population488,050609,365
People per km²1,8842,938
Museums within 10 km3242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
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.