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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Inverness or Lisbon?

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

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

Choose Lisbon for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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, Lisbon 50: Lisbon leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Lisbon 75: Inverness leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Lisbon 82: Lisbon leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Lisbon 62: Lisbon leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Lisbon 66: Lisbon leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Lisbon 36: Lisbon leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Lisbon.

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 with your weighting.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessLisbon
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m100 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessLisbon
City population47,380545,796
People per km²2,2895,453
Museums within 10 km380
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.