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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Inverness or Naples?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Naples for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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, Naples 50: Naples leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Naples 83: Naples leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Naples 87: Naples leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Naples 60: Naples leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Naples 77: Inverness leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Naples 96: Naples leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Naples 45: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Naples 54: Naples leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Naples 60: Naples leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Naples 63: Naples leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Naples 66: Naples leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Naples 44: Naples leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Naples.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Naples 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

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). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessNaples
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 m17 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessNaples
City population47,380913,462
People per km²2,2897,676
Museums within 10 km365
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.

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.