There are 8 ways to get from Costa Rica to Edinburgh by plane, train, or shuttle
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Fly Juan Santamaría International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
best- Fly from Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane SJO - EDI
16h 5m£401–1,011Fly Limón International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
cheapest- Fly from Limón International Airport (LIO) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane LIO - EDI
17h 32m£228–919Fly Juan Santamaría International Airport to Glasgow Airport, train
- Fly from Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane SJO - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
16h 25m£231–941Fly Juan Santamaría International Airport to Newcastle, train
- Fly from Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Newcastle (NCL)plane SJO - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
18h 19m£301–1,095Shuttle, shuttle to Liberia International Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Puntarenas to Monteverde
- Take a shuttle bus from Monteverde to Liberia Airport
- Fly from Liberia International Airport (LIR) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane LIR - EDI
19h 3m£669–2,109Fly Juan Santamaría International Airport to Durham Tees Valley Airport, train
- Fly from Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME)plane SJO - MME
- Take the train from Darlington to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
20h 43m£651–2,330Fly Juan Santamaría International Airport to Aberdeen Airport, train
- Fly from Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)plane SJO - ABZ
- Take the train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
20h 33m£355–1,308Fly Juan Santamaría International Airport to Manchester Airport, train
- Fly from Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Manchester Airport (MAN)plane SJO - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
20h 37m£471–751
Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Costa Rica to Edinburgh is to fly which costs £220 - £950 and takes 17h 32m.
The fastest way to get from Costa Rica to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 16h 5m and costs £400 - £1,100.
The distance between Costa Rica and Edinburgh is 5334 miles.
It takes approximately 16h 5m to get from Costa Rica to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Edinburgh is 6h ahead of Costa Rica. It is currently 9:53 PM in Costa Rica and 3:53 AM in Edinburgh.
There are 2557+ hotels available in Edinburgh.
What companies run services between Costa Rica and Edinburgh, Scotland?
Air France, KLM, and four other airlines fly from Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) twice daily.
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 20m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Limón International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Juan Santamaría International Airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £280–1,100
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £480–1,800
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £600–2,200
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £600–2,300
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Panama City, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £600–2,300
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £320–1,200
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Manchester Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Limón International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Juan Santamaría International Airport, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Newcastle via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 22m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £270–1,000
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £480–1,800
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £600–2,200
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £600–2,300
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Durham Tees Valley Airport via Panama City, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £600–2,300
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £320–1,200
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Manchester Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £210–900
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Madrid
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £340–850
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Glasgow Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £210–900
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Limón International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Juan Santamaría International Airport, London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £210–900
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £410–900
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £280–1,100
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Newcastle via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £320–1,300
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Manchester Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £280–1,100
- Website
- iberia.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £480–1,800
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Manchester Airport via Madrid
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £290–1,100
- Website
- jetblue.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £480–1,800
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Boston
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £480–1,800
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £550–2,100
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Manchester Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £260–950
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £480–1,800
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Newark
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £220–800
- Website
- westjet.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 20m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £550–2,200
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £550–2,100
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £480–1,800
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Liberia International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Miami, Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 17m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £550–2,200
- Website
- aircanada.com
Flights from Juan Santamaría International Airport to Manchester Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £230–850
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £55–100
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Darlington to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £45–70
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £60–90
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Darlington to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £80–120
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £65–95
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £45–75
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 33m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £80–150
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £28–50
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £29–50
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Phone
- 1 800 715 1970
- info@ridecr.com
- Website
- ridecr.com
Shuttle from Puntarenas to Monteverde
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- £130
- Website
- https://www.ridecr.com/
Shuttle from Monteverde to Liberia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- £169
- Website
- https://www.ridecr.com/
Shuttle from Monteverde to Liberia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £49–53
- Website
- https://tropicaltourshuttles.com/
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