VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Tampa?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

EdinburghTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 20 points.20
EdinburghTampa
Score5575
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 16 points.16
EdinburghTampa
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 30 points.30
EdinburghTampa
Score5727
Museums within 10 km3013
Museums within 2 km of centre2210
Share of museums within 2 km %7377
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 25 points.25
EdinburghTampa
Score6439
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km6526
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghTampa
Score3530
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8572
Park area within 2 km166 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 42 points.42
EdinburghTampa
Score7230
Tourist attractions within 2 km873
Park area within 2 km166 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 39 points.39
EdinburghTampa
Score6021
Notable places within 2 km12613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Edinburgh leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghTampa
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 24 points.24
EdinburghTampa
Score5175
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureEdinburghTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghTampa
City population488,050384,959
People per km²1,884848
Museums within 10 km326
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7847
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.