Edinburgh
City in United Kingdom: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Edinburgh cityscapes - aerial - 2025-04-19 20: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Edinburgh is a city in United Kingdom, in Scotland. About 514,990 people live in the city proper, making it the 7th largest city of United Kingdom in our atlas.
It lies at 55.95° N, 3.20° W, about 66 m (217 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/London time zone. At this high latitude, summer days are very long and winter days very short.
Location
Red dot: Edinburgh. Green dots: other major cities of United Kingdom. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Edinburgh has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 18°C (64°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about 1°C (34°F). Around 889 mm (35 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in United KingdomNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Glasgow · 67 km
- Belfast · 227 km
- Bradford · 256 km
- Leeds · 260 km
- Manchester · 281 km
- Liverpool · 282 km
- Birkenhead · 284 km
- Sheffield · 305 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2650225 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q23436 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Edinburgh cityscapes - aerial - 2025-04-19 20: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museum of Scotland: No machine-readable author provided. Maccoinnich~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Colline Arthur Seat Édimbourg 21: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Murrayfield Stadium 2005-05-13: Photo taken by Vclaw, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Calton Hill - aerial - 2025-04-18 02: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pygoscelis papua -Edinburgh Zoo -Scotland-8a: billfromesm, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Schottland-Edinburgh-Sir Walter Scott Monument: No machine-readable author provided. Schatir assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
