VacationSelector

Inverness or Oslo?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

InvernessOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 32 points.32
InvernessOslo
Score2860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1163
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 46 points.46
InvernessOslo
Score2167
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1134
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 28 points.28
InvernessOslo
Score2048
Museums within 10 km670
Museums within 2 km of centre537
Share of museums within 2 km %8353
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 38 points.38
InvernessOslo
Score1553
Drinking venues within 4 km113695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8781
Nightclubs within 4 km441
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 52 points.52
InvernessOslo
Score961
Protected land share 50 km %1222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %8894
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 48 points.48
InvernessOslo
Score048
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 45 points.45
InvernessOslo
Score2469
Notable places within 2 km16207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness and Oslo are level on 54.
InvernessOslo
Score5454
Price level global84.985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Inverness leads by 4 points.4
InvernessOslo
Score5248
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 40 m
€115-151
OSL · 37 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 10 m
€47-64
OSL · 37 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 35 m
€31-38
OSL · 37 km
RigaRIX
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€43-87
OSL · 37 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureInvernessOslo
Official languageEnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation7 m23 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessOslo
City population47,380717,710
People per km²2,289–
Museums within 10 km360
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1575
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.