VacationSelector

Catania or Inverness?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CataniaInverness
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 30 points.30
CataniaInverness
Score5828
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 28 points.28
CataniaInverness
Score4921
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1411
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 39 points.39
CataniaInverness
Score5920
Museums within 10 km346
Museums within 2 km of centre275
Share of museums within 2 km %7983
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Catania leads by 32 points.32
CataniaInverness
Score4715
Drinking venues within 4 km537113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre40398
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7587
Nightclubs within 4 km184
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 22 points.22
CataniaInverness
Score319
Protected land share 50 km %1012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %6188
Park area within 2 km11 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 36 points.36
CataniaInverness
Score360
Tourist attractions within 2 km253
Park area within 2 km11 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 15 points.15
CataniaInverness
Score3924
Notable places within 2 km3716
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 14 points.14
CataniaInverness
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaInverness
Score7752
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months51
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCataniaInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 20 m
€95-118
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BirminghamBHX
3 h 10 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 15 m
no fares
REG · 80 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BristolBRS
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
RigaRIX
3 h 20 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCataniaInverness
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation7 m7 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaInverness
City population311,58447,380
People per km²1,7042,289
Museums within 10 km253
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3015
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.