VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Turin?

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.

Turin
52
match

Wins on value for money 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.

EdinburghTurin
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghTurin
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km201
Coast distance3 km105 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghTurin
Score7064
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0231,198
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3521
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghTurin
Score5768
Museums within 10 km3065
Museums within 2 km of centre2239
Share of museums within 2 km %7360
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Turin leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghTurin
Score6466
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1931,375
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884768
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km6557
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghTurin
Score3533
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares72 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghTurin
Score7253
Tourist attractions within 2 km8736
Park area within 2 km166 hectares72 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghTurin
Score6055
Notable places within 2 km12692
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Turin leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghTurin
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Turin leads by 13 points.13
EdinburghTurin
Score5164
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C7.1 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm44 mm to 127 mm
Dry months00
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
Turin
7
9
14
18
21
26
29
28
24
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Turin
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Turin
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Turin
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Turin
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghTurin
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 103 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€41-129
TRN · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
NaplesNAP
3 h 10 m
€116-161
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€180-291
1 stop
TRN · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€36-129
TRN · 14 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 103 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

MeasureEdinburghTurin
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m239 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghTurin
City population488,050841,600
People per km²1,8846,474
Museums within 10 km3272
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre7878
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.