VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Valencia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

EdinburghValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
EdinburghValencia
Score5567
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2012
Coast distance3 km3 km
Water distance3 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
EdinburghValencia
Score7078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0231,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3533
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghValencia
Score5755
Museums within 10 km3059
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %7344
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghValencia
Score6470
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1931,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7463
Nightclubs within 4 km65108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghValencia
Score3553
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8564
Park area within 2 km166 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 30 points.30
EdinburghValencia
Score7242
Tourist attractions within 2 km8712
Park area within 2 km166 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 8 points.8
EdinburghValencia
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12678
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
EdinburghValencia
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 33 points.33
EdinburghValencia
Score5184
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghValencia
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureEdinburghValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghValencia
City population488,050840,792
People per km²1,8846,242
Museums within 10 km3246
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7892
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.