VacationSelector

Inverness or Lima?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

InvernessLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 9 points.9
InvernessLima
Score2837
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance1 km6 km
Water distance1 km6 km
Places to eat. Lima leads by 31 points.31
InvernessLima
Score2152
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1114
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 44 points.44
InvernessLima
Score2064
Museums within 10 km689
Museums within 2 km of centre547
Share of museums within 2 km %8353
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lima leads by 30 points.30
InvernessLima
Score1545
Drinking venues within 4 km113409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8743
Nightclubs within 4 km463
Nature & day trips. Lima leads by 18 points.18
InvernessLima
Score927
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8851
Park area within 2 km3 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 56 points.56
InvernessLima
Score056
Tourist attractions within 2 km325
Park area within 2 km3 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Lima leads by 22 points.22
InvernessLima
Score2446
Notable places within 2 km1654
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 26 points.26
InvernessLima
Score5480
Price level global84.947.7
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 40 points.40
InvernessLima
Score5292
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months112
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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessLima
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 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 2026-09 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

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 centre13 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessLima
City population47,3809,943,800
People per km²2,2893,721
Museums within 10 km346
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1533
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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. 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.