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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Inverness or Las Vegas?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Las Vegas 25: Inverness leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Las Vegas 68: Inverness leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Las Vegas 25: Inverness leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Las Vegas 25: Inverness leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Las Vegas 38: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Las Vegas 35: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Las Vegas.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Las Vegas
Best match
47match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessLas Vegas
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m610 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessLas Vegas
City population47,380641,903
People per km²2,2891,843
Museums within 10 km321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. 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.