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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Inverness or Limassol?

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
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’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, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Limassol 38: Limassol leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Limassol 65: Inverness leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Limassol 38: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Limassol 44: Limassol leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Limassol 32: Inverness leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Limassol 42: Limassol leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Limassol.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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.

Limassol 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.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

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). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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 centre15 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.