VacationSelector

Innsbruck or Inverness?

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

Your match

Innsbruck
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

InnsbruckInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InnsbruckInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance217 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Innsbruck leads by 25 points.25
InnsbruckInverness
Score4621
Restaurants within 2 km of centre270114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2411
Museums & heritage. Innsbruck leads by 28 points.28
InnsbruckInverness
Score4820
Museums within 10 km346
Museums within 2 km of centre215
Share of museums within 2 km %6283
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Innsbruck leads by 19 points.19
InnsbruckInverness
Score3415
Drinking venues within 4 km271113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre21698
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8087
Nightclubs within 4 km164
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 51 points.51
InnsbruckInverness
Score609
Protected land share 50 km %3112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %811
Land share of disc %10088
Park area within 2 km38 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Innsbruck leads by 45 points.45
InnsbruckInverness
Score450
Tourist attractions within 2 km183
Park area within 2 km38 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Innsbruck leads by 21 points.21
InnsbruckInverness
Score4524
Notable places within 2 km5316
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Innsbruck leads by 5 points.5
InnsbruckInverness
Score5954
Price level global76.984.9
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Innsbruck leads by 7 points.7
InnsbruckInverness
Score5952
Monthly daytime high3.9 °C to 25.6 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 144 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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Innsbruck
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3
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. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInnsbruckInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 20 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 45 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BristolBRS
2 h 0 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 0 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
DublinDUB
2 h 10 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 20 m
no fares
FMM · 118 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

MeasureInnsbruckInverness
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageEnglish
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
Elevation574 m7 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckInverness
City population132,49947,380
People per km²1,2632,289
Museums within 10 km273
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4715
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.