VacationSelector

Ghent or Inverness?

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

Your match

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

GhentInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 2 points.2
GhentInverness
Score2628
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance32 km1 km
Water distance32 km1 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 49 points.49
GhentInverness
Score7021
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4911
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 38 points.38
GhentInverness
Score5820
Museums within 10 km246
Museums within 2 km of centre205
Share of museums within 2 km %8383
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 34 points.34
GhentInverness
Score4915
Drinking venues within 4 km570113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre44698
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7887
Nightclubs within 4 km264
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 25 points.25
GhentInverness
Score349
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %411
Land share of disc %8788
Park area within 2 km84 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 50 points.50
GhentInverness
Score500
Tourist attractions within 2 km193
Park area within 2 km84 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 22 points.22
GhentInverness
Score4624
Notable places within 2 km5516
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
GhentInverness
Score6054
Price level global76.284.9
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
GhentInverness
Score5652
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months11
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGhentInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 25 m
no fares
ANR · 54 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 45 m
no fares
ANR · 54 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 20 m
no fares
ANR · 54 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGhentInverness
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation12 m7 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentInverness
City population272,65747,380
People per km²1,7282,289
Museums within 10 km303
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8315
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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. 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.