VacationSelector

Edinburgh or West Palm Beach?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.33
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score5588
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 33 points.33
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score7037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 40 points.40
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score5717
Museums within 10 km305
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %7360
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 44 points.44
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score6420
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88490
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7468
Nightclubs within 4 km6510
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 34 points.34
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score3569
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8545
Park area within 2 km166 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 51 points.51
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score7221
Tourist attractions within 2 km873
Park area within 2 km166 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 48 points.48
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score6012
Notable places within 2 km1268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Edinburgh leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 24 points.24
EdinburghWest Palm Beach
Score5175
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
FLL · 72 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

MeasureEdinburghWest Palm Beach
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation47 m6 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghWest Palm Beach
City population488,050117,415
People per km²1,884786
Museums within 10 km324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7818
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.