VacationSelector

Inverness or Malaga?

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.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
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.

InvernessMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 38 points.38
InvernessMalaga
Score2866
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km121
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 48 points.48
InvernessMalaga
Score2169
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1134
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 33 points.33
InvernessMalaga
Score2053
Museums within 10 km640
Museums within 2 km of centre535
Share of museums within 2 km %8388
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 39 points.39
InvernessMalaga
Score1554
Drinking venues within 4 km113715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8768
Nightclubs within 4 km445
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 34 points.34
InvernessMalaga
Score943
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8863
Park area within 2 km3 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 53 points.53
InvernessMalaga
Score053
Tourist attractions within 2 km333
Park area within 2 km3 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Malaga leads by 13 points.13
InvernessMalaga
Score2437
Notable places within 2 km1633
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
InvernessMalaga
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 30 points.30
InvernessMalaga
Score5282
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months15
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
1 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureInvernessMalaga
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m18 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMalaga
City population47,380599,063
People per km²2,2891,517
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1565
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.