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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License.

Inverness or Izmir?

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 Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Izmir for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’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. Inverness 20, Izmir 62: Izmir leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Izmir 72: Izmir leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Izmir 60: Izmir leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Izmir 66: Inverness leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Izmir 86: Izmir leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Inverness and Izmir are level on 55.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Izmir 63: Izmir leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Izmir 48: Izmir leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Izmir 57: Izmir leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Izmir.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 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. Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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 centre15 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

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. 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). 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.

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.