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Philae temple on the Nile, Aswan
AswanPhilae temple on the Nile
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Aswan by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Aswan or Inverness?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Aswan for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Aswan’s own page.

Choose Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Aswan 10, Inverness 20: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Aswan 30, Inverness 36: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Aswan 64, Inverness 27: Aswan leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Aswan 8, Inverness 28: Inverness leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aswan 45, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Aswan 52, Inverness 56: Inverness leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Aswan 32, Inverness 55: Inverness leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Aswan 40, Inverness 48: Inverness leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Aswan and Inverness are level on 30.
Affordability. Aswan 92, Inverness 38: Aswan leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aswan 14, Inverness 33: Inverness leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aswan 40, Inverness 30: Aswan leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aswan and Inverness.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Aswan
38match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Aswan in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Inverness has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aswan: 1991-2020 normals, Asswan (18 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAswanInverness
Official languageArabicEnglish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112 or 999
Elevation99 m7 m
Main airportAswan International Airport (ASW)16 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAswanInverness
City population401,89047,380
People per km²1,0722,289
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.