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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Inverness or New Orleans?

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
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, New Orleans 42: Inverness leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, New Orleans 52: Inverness leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Inverness and New Orleans are level on 55.
Getting around. Inverness 48, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, New Orleans 40: New Orleans leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, New Orleans 25: Inverness leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and New Orleans.

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 beaches with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InvernessNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessNew Orleans
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m-2 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessNew Orleans
City population47,380383,997
People per km²2,289423
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.