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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Florence 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 Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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. Florence 14, Inverness 20: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Inverness 36: Florence leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Inverness 27: Florence leads by 67 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Inverness 28: Florence leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Inverness 56: Florence leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Inverness 55: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Inverness 48: Florence leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Inverness 30: Florence leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Inverness 38: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Inverness 33: Florence leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Inverness 30: Florence leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Inverness.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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.

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

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 centre46 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 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 km1413
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). 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.

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.