🇬🇧Cost of Travel in United Kingdom (2026): Daily Budgets for 3 Cities
Castles, free world-class museums, pubs older than most countries — and trains that string London's theatres, Edinburgh's crags and Bath's crescents into one easy loop.
Daily budgets in United Kingdom
The cheapest city in United Kingdom is Edinburgh, at $130–210 a day mid-range per person; the priciest is London, at $180–280 — about 35% more for the same style of trip.
| City | Budget / day | Mid-range / day | Comfort / day | Cheap meal | Mid-range hotel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh | $80–130 | $130–210 | $230–380 | $9–15 | $140–240 |
| Bath | $85–130 | $140–220 | $250–400 | $9–16 | $150–260 |
| London | $110–170 | $180–280 | $320–500 | $10–18 | $190–320 |
Per person in US dollars, flights not included. Mid-range is each guide's researched figure and includes a mid-range room; budget and comfort scale it by 0.6 and 1.8, so treat those as rough. How we work these out.
Plan a trip across United Kingdom
Set the nights you'd spend in each city. Per person, before flights; each night counts one day of that city's daily budget.
Cities
🏴Bath
United KingdomA whole city built from the same honey-colored stone, wrapped around Roman baths that still steam. Small enough to walk end to end, grand enough to be a UNESCO site twice over — and 80 minutes from London by train.
🏴Edinburgh
United KingdomA castle on a dead volcano, a medieval Old Town stacked ten storeys deep, and a hill in the middle of the city you can climb before breakfast. Compact, dramatic, and best in the rain-then-sun light Scotland does daily.
🇬🇧London
United KingdomTwo thousand years of city stacked on itself — Roman walls under glass towers, world-class museums that cost nothing, and a pub on every corner that's older than your country.
Head to head
Two cities side by side — costs, best months and what you'd do in each.