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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Edinburgh or Tangier?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Tangier for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Tangier 57: Edinburgh leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Tangier 30: Edinburgh leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Tangier 55: Edinburgh leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Tangier 72: Edinburgh leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Tangier 35: Edinburgh leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Tangier 40: Edinburgh leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Tangier 42: Edinburgh leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Tangier 28: Edinburgh leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Tangier.

Your match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Tangier
49match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEdinburghTangier
Official languageEnglishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112 or 999Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation47 m56 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghTangier
City population488,0501,275,428
People per km²1,8846,393
Museums within 10 km326
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.