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Edinburgh

capital city of Scotland, UK

140km

55.953056-3.188889

Inverness

Inverness (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Nis, "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, situated where the River Ness flows out into the Moray Firth. It's the only town of any size in the Highlands, and is the region's commercial and administrative centre. It's an agreeable Victorian town that has no stand-out tourist attractions of its own, but has good transport and choice of lodging and eating places. So it's a good base for exploring nearby Loch Ness, Black Isle, Culloden, Spey valley and Cairngorm National Park.Inverness Information Centre 36 High Street, IV1 1JQ ☏+44 1463 252401 Daily, open all year

236km

57.4717-4.2254
Sights (10)

His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen

theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland

631m

57.148-2.1049

Music Hall Aberdeen

movie theater in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK

720m

57.145-2.105

Sir Duncan Rice Library

academic library in Aberdeen

891m

57.164984-2.105614

Marischal College

college in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK

1.5km

57.1495-2.0964

The Tolbooth, Aberdeen

museum in Aberdeen

1.7km

57.148-2.0951

Scotstown Moor

nature reserve in Aberdeen, Scotland

2.7km

57.197-2.11

Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre

convention center in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK

3.3km

57.18638889-2.08722222

Gordon Highlanders Museum

Military museum in Aberdeen

4.1km

57.1376-2.1464

Footdee

Footdee is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland known locally by its Scots language name of Fittie. It is an old fishing village at the east end of the harbour. The name is actually folk etymology. Far from being "Foot of the Dee/Fit o the Dee", it is actually a corruption of a former dedication to a "St Fittick".

4.4km

57.1438-2.0711

Ballater

town (burgh) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

104km

57.0448-3.04942
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Aberdeen

Someday we will visit Aberdeen or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Scots: Aiberdeen) is the third-largest city in Scotland, United Kingdom, with a population of over 220,000. It is a harbour city on Scotland's north-east coast, approximately 120 miles (190 km) north of Edinburgh and 400 miles (650 km) north of London, where the Rivers Dee and Don meet the North Sea. It is an important sea port, regional centre, and the hub of the North Sea oil industry.

Aberdeen's architecture is known for its principal use during the Victorian era of granite, which has led to its local nickname of the Granite City or more romantically the less commonly used name the Silver City, since the Mica in the stone sparkles in the sun. The hard grey stone is one of the most durable materials available and helps to explain why the city's buildings look brand-new when they have been newly cleaned and the cement has been pointed. Unlike other Scottish cities where sandstone has been used, the buildings are not weathering and need very little structural maintenance on their masonry. The buildings can however become noticeably darker as a result of pollution and grime accumulated over the years. There has however been great success in cleaning the buildings which can result in their façade being restored back to much how they looked originally.

Being sited between two river mouths, the city has little natural exposure of bedrock. This leaves local geologists in a slight quandary: despite the high concentration of geoscientists in the area (courtesy of the oil industry), there is only a vague understanding of what underlies the city. To the south side of the city, coastal cliffs expose high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Grampian Group; to the south-west and west are extensive granites intruded into similar high-grade schists; to the north the metamorphics are intruded by gabbroic complexes instead. The small amount of geophysics done, and occasional building-related exposures, combined with small exposures in the banks of the River Don, suggest that it is actually sited on an inlier of Devonian "Old Red" sandstones and silts. The outskirts of the city spread beyond the (inferred) limits of the outlier onto the surrounding metamorphic/ igneous complexes formed during the Dalradian period (approximately 480–600 million years ago) with sporadic areas of igneous Diorite granites to be found, such as that at the Rubislaw quarry which was used to build much of the Victorian parts of the city.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

6°C0
Precipitation: 75 mm

Feb

7°C0
Precipitation: 54 mm

Mar

9°C2
Precipitation: 61 mm

Apr

11°C3
Precipitation: 59 mm

May

13°C5
Precipitation: 55 mm

Jun

16°C8
Precipitation: 56 mm

Jul

18°C10
Precipitation: 59 mm

Aug

18°C10
Precipitation: 62 mm

Sep

16°C8
Precipitation: 73 mm

Oct

12°C6
Precipitation: 84 mm

Nov

9°C2
Precipitation: 84 mm

Dec

7°C1
Precipitation: 79 mm