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Edinburgh or Venice?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

EdinburghVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghVenice
Score5569
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2020
Coast distance3 km4 km
Water distance3 km4 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 25 points.25
EdinburghVenice
Score7045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3510
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghVenice
Score5772
Museums within 10 km3057
Museums within 2 km of centre2245
Share of museums within 2 km %7379
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 29 points.29
EdinburghVenice
Score6435
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7489
Nightclubs within 4 km653
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghVenice
Score3517
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8570
Park area within 2 km166 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghVenice
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km8772
Park area within 2 km166 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 23 points.23
EdinburghVenice
Score6083
Notable places within 2 km126464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghVenice
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghVenice
Score5166
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Venice
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
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureEdinburghVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghVenice
City population488,050250,369
People per km²1,884602
Museums within 10 km3252
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre7846
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.