VacationSelector

Inverness or Izmir?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

InvernessIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 27 points.27
InvernessIzmir
Score2855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 28 points.28
InvernessIzmir
Score2149
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1112
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 23 points.23
InvernessIzmir
Score2043
Museums within 10 km647
Museums within 2 km of centre527
Share of museums within 2 km %8357
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 47 points.47
InvernessIzmir
Score1562
Drinking venues within 4 km1131,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8768
Nightclubs within 4 km470
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 20 points.20
InvernessIzmir
Score929
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8884
Park area within 2 km3 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
InvernessIzmir
Score035
Tourist attractions within 2 km36
Park area within 2 km3 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Izmir leads by 16 points.16
InvernessIzmir
Score2440
Notable places within 2 km1639
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 35 points.35
InvernessIzmir
Score5489
Price level global84.935.2
Daily budget—€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 20 points.20
InvernessIzmir
Score5272
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months15
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessIzmir
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 15 m
€231-257
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 0 m
€250-300
1 stop
BJV · 137 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
BJV · 137 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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

MeasureInvernessIzmir
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessIzmir
City population47,3804,493,242
People per km²2,2894,760
Museums within 10 km329
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1520
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.