VacationSelector

Inverness or Montreal?

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 and year-round weather with your weighting.

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

InvernessMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessMontreal
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance1 km276 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 53 points.53
InvernessMontreal
Score2174
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1149
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 17 points.17
InvernessMontreal
Score2037
Museums within 10 km639
Museums within 2 km of centre519
Share of museums within 2 km %8349
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 47 points.47
InvernessMontreal
Score1562
Drinking venues within 4 km1131,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8749
Nightclubs within 4 km474
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 27 points.27
InvernessMontreal
Score936
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 50 points.50
InvernessMontreal
Score050
Tourist attractions within 2 km311
Park area within 2 km3 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 32 points.32
InvernessMontreal
Score2456
Notable places within 2 km1698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness and Montreal are level on 54.
InvernessMontreal
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Inverness leads by 2 points.2
InvernessMontreal
Score5250
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Montreal
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
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureInvernessMontreal
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m31 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMontreal
City population47,3801,895,211
People per km²2,2893,806
Museums within 10 km337
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1597
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. 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.