VacationSelector

Hamburg or Inverness?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

HamburgInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
HamburgInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km161
Coast distance22 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 52 points.52
HamburgInverness
Score7321
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3811
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 40 points.40
HamburgInverness
Score6020
Museums within 10 km946
Museums within 2 km of centre505
Share of museums within 2 km %5383
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 53 points.53
HamburgInverness
Score6815
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre83498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6287
Nightclubs within 4 km1194
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 31 points.31
HamburgInverness
Score409
Protected land share 50 km %1412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1011
Land share of disc %9988
Park area within 2 km89 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 60 points.60
HamburgInverness
Score600
Tourist attractions within 2 km403
Park area within 2 km89 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 35 points.35
HamburgInverness
Score5924
Notable places within 2 km11816
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 6 points.6
HamburgInverness
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Hamburg leads by 3 points.3
HamburgInverness
Score5552
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
DublinDUB
1 h 55 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 20 m
€58
HAM · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 50 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 50 m
€415-451
2 stops
HAM · 9 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
FaroFAO
3 h 25 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 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

MeasureHamburgInverness
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation6 m7 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgInverness
City population1,910,16047,380
People per km²2,5302,289
Museums within 10 km773
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8315
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.