VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Toledo?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

EdinburghToledo
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghToledo
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km201
Coast distance3 km320 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 46 points.46
EdinburghToledo
Score7024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km357
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghToledo
Score5746
Museums within 10 km3019
Museums within 2 km of centre2219
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 47 points.47
EdinburghToledo
Score6417
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7496
Nightclubs within 4 km655
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 7 points.7
EdinburghToledo
Score3528
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghToledo
Score7254
Tourist attractions within 2 km8732
Park area within 2 km166 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghToledo
Score6046
Notable places within 2 km12655
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 17 points.17
EdinburghToledo
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 23 points.23
EdinburghToledo
Score5174
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€77-197
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureEdinburghToledo
Official languageEnglishSpanish
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 m523 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghToledo
City population488,05087,216
People per km²1,884376
Museums within 10 km3213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7813
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.