VacationSelector

Florence or Inverness?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

FlorenceInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
FlorenceInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance78 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 38 points.38
FlorenceInverness
Score5921
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1511
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 62 points.62
FlorenceInverness
Score8220
Museums within 10 km1326
Museums within 2 km of centre935
Share of museums within 2 km %7083
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Florence leads by 41 points.41
FlorenceInverness
Score5615
Drinking venues within 4 km818113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre59998
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7387
Nightclubs within 4 km344
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 29 points.29
FlorenceInverness
Score389
Protected land share 50 km %912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %211
Land share of disc %10088
Park area within 2 km86 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 52 points.52
FlorenceInverness
Score520
Tourist attractions within 2 km303
Park area within 2 km86 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 51 points.51
FlorenceInverness
Score7524
Notable places within 2 km29216
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceInverness
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 16 points.16
FlorenceInverness
Score6852
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months21
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceInverness
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BristolBRS
2 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 5 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 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 2026-08 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

MeasureFlorenceInverness
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
Elevation50 m7 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceInverness
City population360,93047,380
People per km²3,5282,289
Museums within 10 km1403
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6215
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. 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. 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.