VacationSelector

Inverness or Limassol?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Limassol
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InvernessLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 51 points.51
InvernessLimassol
Score2879
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Limassol leads by 22 points.22
InvernessLimassol
Score2143
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1119
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 24 points.24
InvernessLimassol
Score2044
Museums within 10 km617
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %8359
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 24 points.24
InvernessLimassol
Score1539
Drinking venues within 4 km113340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8775
Nightclubs within 4 km420
Nature & day trips. Limassol leads by 13 points.13
InvernessLimassol
Score922
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8849
Park area within 2 km3 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
InvernessLimassol
Score016
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km3 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 10 points.10
InvernessLimassol
Score2414
Notable places within 2 km169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 16 points.16
InvernessLimassol
Score5470
Price level global84.961.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 33 points.33
InvernessLimassol
Score5285
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
GlasgowGLA, PIK
1 h 0 m
no fares
WIC · 127 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
RigaRIX
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 40 m
€224-279
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
PFO · 51 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

MeasureInvernessLimassol
Official languageEnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessLimassol
City population47,380107,970
People per km²2,2892,405
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre1528
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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.