VacationSelector

Interlaken or Inverness?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

InterlakenInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InterlakenInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km121
Coast distance713 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Interlaken leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenInverness
Score2921
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1711
Museums & heritage. Interlaken leads by 3 points.3
InterlakenInverness
Score2320
Museums within 10 km56
Museums within 2 km of centre25
Share of museums within 2 km %4083
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
InterlakenInverness
Score415
Drinking venues within 4 km42113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3898
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9087
Nightclubs within 4 km34
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 18 points.18
InterlakenInverness
Score279
Protected land share 50 km %1912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %10088
Park area within 2 km5 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Interlaken leads by 14 points.14
InterlakenInverness
Score140
Tourist attractions within 2 km113
Park area within 2 km5 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 2 points.2
InterlakenInverness
Score2224
Notable places within 2 km1416
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenInverness
Score3554
Price level global110.584.9
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 5 points.5
InterlakenInverness
Score5752
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months31
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
GenevaGVA
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 45 m
no fares
GVA · 143 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
BristolBRS
1 h 40 m
no fares
GVA · 143 km
1 h 30 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

MeasureInterlakenInverness
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation571 m7 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenInverness
City population6,12347,380
People per km²1,4242,289
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2215
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). 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. 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.