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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig, Manila
ManilaThe Manila Central Post Office on the Pasig

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Manila by Kenneth Surillo, Pexels License.

Inverness or Manila?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Manila for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Manila’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, Manila 12: Inverness leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Manila 64: Manila leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Manila 54: Manila leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Manila 64: Manila leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Manila 40: Inverness leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Manila 42: Inverness leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Manila 42: Inverness leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Manila 26: Inverness leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Manila 60: Manila leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Manila 77: Manila leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Manila 50: Manila leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Manila 40: Manila leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Manila.

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 and getting around with your weighting.

Manila
Best match
48match

Wins on prices 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

Manila in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
487 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InvernessManila

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). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessManila
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m9 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessManila
City population47,3801,902,590
People per km²2,28976,104
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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.