VacationSelector

Inverness or Nice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

InvernessNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 45 points.45
InvernessNice
Score2873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 48 points.48
InvernessNice
Score2169
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1128
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 26 points.26
InvernessNice
Score2046
Museums within 10 km627
Museums within 2 km of centre514
Share of museums within 2 km %8352
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Nice leads by 29 points.29
InvernessNice
Score1544
Drinking venues within 4 km113428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8791
Nightclubs within 4 km426
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 48 points.48
InvernessNice
Score957
Protected land share 50 km %1224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1120
Land share of disc %8862
Park area within 2 km3 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Nice leads by 30 points.30
InvernessNice
Score030
Tourist attractions within 2 km34
Park area within 2 km3 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 23 points.23
InvernessNice
Score2447
Notable places within 2 km1660
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 8 points.8
InvernessNice
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 22 points.22
InvernessNice
Score5274
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months13
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
1 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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

MeasureInvernessNice
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessNice
City population47,380357,737
People per km²2,2894,975
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1565
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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. 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.