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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Inverness or Manaus?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Manaus for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Manaus’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, Manaus 38: Manaus leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Manaus 46: Manaus leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Manaus 42: Manaus leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Manaus 12: Inverness leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Manaus 35: Inverness leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Manaus 27: Inverness leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Manaus 36: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Manaus 20: Inverness leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Manaus.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Manaus
Best match
43match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts 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

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessManaus
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112 or 999Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation7 m92 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessManaus
City population47,3802,303,732
People per km²2,289202
Museums within 10 km313
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.