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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Inverness or Lima?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Lima 88: Lima leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Lima 66: Lima leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Lima 62: Lima leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Lima 45: Inverness leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Lima 34: Inverness leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Lima 42: Inverness leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Lima 35: Inverness leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Lima 52: Lima leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Lima 70: Lima leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Lima 53: Lima leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Lima 25: Inverness leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Lima.

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 and day trips with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessLima
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Sol (PEN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999111 or 911
Elevation7 m154 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessLima
City population47,3809,943,800
People per km²2,2893,721
Museums within 10 km347
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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. 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.