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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Delhi 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 Delhi for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

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. Delhi 4, Inverness 20: Inverness leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Inverness 36: Delhi leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Inverness 27: Delhi leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Inverness 28: Delhi leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 64 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Inverness 56: Delhi leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Inverness 55: Inverness leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Inverness 48: Delhi leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Inverness 30: Delhi leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Inverness 38: Delhi leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Inverness 33: Delhi leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Inverness 30: Inverness leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Inverness.

Your match

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

Delhi
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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.

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 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. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiInverness
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112 or 999
Elevation221 m7 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiInverness
City population26,495,00047,380
People per km²18,9622,289
Museums within 10 km233
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.