Route brief · ROM → EDI
Rome → Edinburgh
$126
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 4 – Sep 6 · 2 nights
RyanairNonstop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for ROM → EDI. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in September around $105 and peak in June near $223 — a $118 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip. At $126 for 1,929 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Edinburgh, this fare ranks 4th — 2.1× the $61 we hold from Barcelona. For context, the middle fare among the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome is $92. Across the 5 months of prices we hold for this route the typical fare is $120, so at $126 this one is $6 above it — no discount to claim here.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 23% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $203 then versus $156 now, across 4 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $111, on Sep 24.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Sep · around $105
13% below the $120 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Edinburgh · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,929 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
ROM → EDI, answered.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Rome to Edinburgh?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Edinburgh are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ROM → Edinburgh?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 5 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Edinburgh?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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