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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • 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. Hoi An 72, Inverness 20: Hoi An leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Inverness 36: Hoi An leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Inverness 27: Hoi An leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An and Inverness are level on 28.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Inverness 56: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Inverness 55: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Hoi An and Inverness are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Inverness 30: Hoi An leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Inverness 38: Hoi An leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Inverness 33: Inverness leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Inverness 30: Hoi An leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Inverness.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine 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

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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnInverness
Official languageVietnameseEnglish
CurrencyDong (VND)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112 or 999
Elevation13 m7 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnInverness
City population121,71647,380
People per km²-2,289
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.