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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Inverness or Marmaris?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Marmaris 40: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Marmaris 18: Inverness leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Marmaris 72: Inverness leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Marmaris 38: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Marmaris 12: Inverness leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches 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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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.

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessMarmaris
Official languageEnglishTurkish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m7 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMarmaris
City population47,38097,818
People per km²2,289111
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.