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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Inverness or Kotor?

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

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Kotor 37: Kotor leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Kotor 30: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Kotor 80: Inverness leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Kotor 36: Inverness leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Inverness and Kotor are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Kotor 20: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Kotor 20: Inverness leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Kotor 24: Inverness leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Kotor.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessKotor
Official languageEnglishMontenegrin
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessKotor
City population47,380562
People per km²2,289-
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.