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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Guilin 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 Guilin for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Inverness for

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

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. Guilin 8, Inverness 20: Inverness leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Inverness 36: Guilin leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Inverness 27: Guilin leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Inverness 28: Guilin leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Inverness 84: Guilin leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Guilin and Inverness are level on 56.
Good for families. Guilin 45, Inverness 55: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Inverness 48: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Inverness 30: Inverness leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Inverness 38: Guilin leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Inverness 33: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Inverness 30: Guilin leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Inverness.

Your match

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

Guilin
Best match
44match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on beaches 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.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinInverness
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation153 m7 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinInverness
City population4,931,13747,380
People per km²-2,289
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.