VacationSelector

Inverness or New York?

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 value for money with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

InvernessNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 36 points.36
InvernessNew York
Score2864
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 74 points.74
InvernessNew York
Score2195
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1146,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1138
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 40 points.40
InvernessNew York
Score2060
Museums within 10 km6119
Museums within 2 km of centre531
Share of museums within 2 km %8326
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 74 points.74
InvernessNew York
Score1589
Drinking venues within 4 km1134,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre982,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8748
Nightclubs within 4 km4192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 30 points.30
InvernessNew York
Score939
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8869
Park area within 2 km3 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 72 points.72
InvernessNew York
Score072
Tourist attractions within 2 km337
Park area within 2 km3 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. New York leads by 50 points.50
InvernessNew York
Score2474
Notable places within 2 km16268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
InvernessNew York
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New York leads by 6 points.6
InvernessNew York
Score5258
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FaroFAO
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
EWR · 14 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

MeasureInvernessNew York
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
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 m25 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessNew York
City population47,3808,804,190
People per km²2,2897,256
Museums within 10 km3157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre15132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.