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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Inverness or Montego Bay?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Montego Bay 28: Montego Bay leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Montego Bay 65: Inverness leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Montego Bay 50: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Montego Bay 48: Inverness leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Montego Bay 20: Inverness leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Montego Bay 25: Inverness leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Inverness and Montego Bay are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Montego Bay 32: Inverness leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montego Bay
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessMontego Bay
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation7 m19 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMontego Bay
City population47,380123,994
People per km²2,289-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.