VacationSelector

Inverness or Milan?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
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.

InvernessMilan
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessMilan
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Milan leads by 49 points.49
InvernessMilan
Score2170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1120
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 54 points.54
InvernessMilan
Score2074
Museums within 10 km687
Museums within 2 km of centre555
Share of museums within 2 km %8363
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Milan leads by 60 points.60
InvernessMilan
Score1575
Drinking venues within 4 km1132,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8743
Nightclubs within 4 km470
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 56 points.56
InvernessMilan
Score965
Protected land share 50 km %1230
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1111
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 77 points.77
InvernessMilan
Score077
Tourist attractions within 2 km376
Park area within 2 km3 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 50 points.50
InvernessMilan
Score2474
Notable places within 2 km16266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 14 points.14
InvernessMilan
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 12 points.12
InvernessMilan
Score5264
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGY · 46 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
VRN · 133 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureInvernessMilan
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m138 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMilan
City population47,3801,354,196
People per km²2,2897,453
Museums within 10 km387
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre1579
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.