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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Inverness or Luxor?

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
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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, Luxor 6: Inverness leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Luxor 30: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Luxor 10: Inverness leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Luxor 32: Inverness leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Luxor 30: Inverness leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Luxor 35: Inverness leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Luxor 25: Inverness leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Luxor 10: Inverness leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Luxor 28: Inverness leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Luxor.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Luxor 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.

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). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessLuxor
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation7 m89 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessLuxor
City population47,380202,232
People per km²2,289486
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. 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.