VacationSelector

Inverness or Lisbon?

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.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

InvernessLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 29 points.29
InvernessLisbon
Score2857
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km124
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 59 points.59
InvernessLisbon
Score2180
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1142,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1131
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 50 points.50
InvernessLisbon
Score2070
Museums within 10 km6124
Museums within 2 km of centre554
Share of museums within 2 km %8344
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 50 points.50
InvernessLisbon
Score1565
Drinking venues within 4 km1131,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8778
Nightclubs within 4 km465
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 47 points.47
InvernessLisbon
Score956
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8854
Park area within 2 km3 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 69 points.69
InvernessLisbon
Score069
Tourist attractions within 2 km382
Park area within 2 km3 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 42 points.42
InvernessLisbon
Score2466
Notable places within 2 km16169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
InvernessLisbon
Score5474
Price level global84.955.9
Daily budget—€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 26 points.26
InvernessLisbon
Score5278
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months14
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessLisbon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 25 m
€171-195
LIS · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€126-176
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
FaroFAO
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 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

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 centre13 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 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 km378
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre15106
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.