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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License.

Inverness or Mumbai?

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
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Mumbai for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Mumbai’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, Mumbai 18: Inverness leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Mumbai 82: Mumbai leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Mumbai 70: Mumbai leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Mumbai 52: Mumbai leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Mumbai 55: Inverness leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Mumbai 48: Inverness leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Mumbai 35: Inverness leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Mumbai 38: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Mumbai 66: Mumbai leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Mumbai 72: Mumbai leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Mumbai 55: Mumbai leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Mumbai 24: Inverness leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Mumbai.

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 families with your weighting.

Mumbai
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink 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

Mumbai in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
860 mmrain in the month
2 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). Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessMumbai
Official languageEnglishHindi, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112 or 999108 or 112
Elevation7 m14 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMumbai
City population47,38015,414,288
People per km²2,28925,563
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.