VacationSelector

Inverness or Kotor?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Kotor
✓ Best match
36
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.

InvernessKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 49 points.49
InvernessKotor
Score2877
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km150
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Kotor leads by 5 points.5
InvernessKotor
Score2126
Restaurants within 2 km of centre11471
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1119
Museums & heritage. Kotor leads by 8 points.8
InvernessKotor
Score2028
Museums within 10 km67
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %8343
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
InvernessKotor
Score154
Drinking venues within 4 km11346
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9838
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8783
Nightclubs within 4 km43
Nature & day trips. Kotor leads by 6 points.6
InvernessKotor
Score915
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %115
Land share of disc %8866
Park area within 2 km3 hectares2 hectares
Good for families. Kotor leads by 9 points.9
InvernessKotor
Score09
Tourist attractions within 2 km38
Park area within 2 km3 hectares2 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 3 points.3
InvernessKotor
Score2421
Notable places within 2 km1613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kotor leads by 33 points.33
InvernessKotor
Score5487
Price level global84.938.9
Daily budget—€95
Year-round weather. Kotor leads by 9 points.9
InvernessKotor
Score5261
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C10.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm38 mm to 256 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessKotor
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€100-108
TGD · 40 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€257-300
2 stops
TIV · 5 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 15 m
€104-134
TGD · 40 km
RigaRIX
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 35 m
€221-302
TIV · 5 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

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 centre13 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre41 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre1527
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.