VacationSelector

Inverness or Orlando?

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 beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Orlando
✓ Best match
40
match

Wins on good for families 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.

InvernessOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessOrlando
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance1 km68 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Orlando leads by 27 points.27
InvernessOrlando
Score2148
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1121
Museums & heritage. Inverness leads by 12 points.12
InvernessOrlando
Score208
Museums within 10 km611
Museums within 2 km of centre52
Share of museums within 2 km %8318
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Orlando leads by 26 points.26
InvernessOrlando
Score1541
Drinking venues within 4 km113344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8763
Nightclubs within 4 km439
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 35 points.35
InvernessOrlando
Score944
Protected land share 50 km %1215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 89 points.89
InvernessOrlando
Score089
Tourist attractions within 2 km3
Park area within 2 km3 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km020
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 8 points.8
InvernessOrlando
Score2416
Notable places within 2 km1610
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
InvernessOrlando
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 22 points.22
InvernessOrlando
Score5274
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Orlando
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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessOrlando
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 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

MeasureInvernessOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessOrlando
City population47,380334,854
People per km²2,2891,086
Museums within 10 km311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1530
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.