VacationSelector

Inverness or Melbourne?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

InvernessMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 27 points.27
InvernessMelbourne
Score2855
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km119
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 54 points.54
InvernessMelbourne
Score2175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1129
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 29 points.29
InvernessMelbourne
Score2049
Museums within 10 km642
Museums within 2 km of centre524
Share of museums within 2 km %8357
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 59 points.59
InvernessMelbourne
Score1574
Drinking venues within 4 km1131,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre981,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8762
Nightclubs within 4 km4124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 34 points.34
InvernessMelbourne
Score943
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8881
Park area within 2 km3 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 60 points.60
InvernessMelbourne
Score060
Tourist attractions within 2 km326
Park area within 2 km3 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 33 points.33
InvernessMelbourne
Score2457
Notable places within 2 km16103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 4 points.4
InvernessMelbourne
Score5450
Price level global84.990.2
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 24 points.24
InvernessMelbourne
Score5276
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm45 mm to 69 mm
Dry months10
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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureInvernessMelbourne
Official languageEnglishEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999000
Elevation7 m31 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMelbourne
City population47,3805,350,705
People per km²2,289535
Museums within 10 km342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1586
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.