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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • day trips

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. Havana 64, Inverness 20: Havana leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Inverness 36: Havana leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Inverness 27: Havana leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Inverness 28: Havana leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Inverness 56: Inverness leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Inverness 55: Inverness leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Inverness 48: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Havana and Inverness are level on 30.
Affordability. Havana 58, Inverness 38: Havana leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Inverness 33: Havana leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Inverness 30: Inverness leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Inverness.

Your match

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

Havana
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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

Havana 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 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaInverness
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112 or 999
Elevation59 m7 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaInverness
City population2,492,61847,380
People per km²3,4232,289
Museums within 10 km123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.