VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Verona?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Verona
48
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.

EdinburghVerona
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghVerona
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km202
Coast distance3 km104 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 27 points.27
EdinburghVerona
Score7043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3513
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 1 points.1
EdinburghVerona
Score5756
Museums within 10 km3020
Museums within 2 km of centre2219
Share of museums within 2 km %7395
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 24 points.24
EdinburghVerona
Score6440
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km659
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 1 points.1
EdinburghVerona
Score3536
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghVerona
Score7269
Tourist attractions within 2 km8762
Park area within 2 km166 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 7 points.7
EdinburghVerona
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12682
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghVerona
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghVerona
Score5165
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months01
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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Verona
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
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
PalermoPMO
3 h 25 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€122-127
VCE · 106 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
3 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 96 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 96 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 10 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

MeasureEdinburghVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghVerona
City population488,050255,588
People per km²1,8841,285
Museums within 10 km3218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre7835
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.