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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Inverness or Montevideo?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Montevideo 34: Inverness leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Montevideo 55: Inverness leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Inverness and Montevideo are level on 55.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Montevideo 36: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Montevideo.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessMontevideo
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m41 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMontevideo
City population47,3801,302,954
People per km²2,2891,785
Museums within 10 km336
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.