VacationSelector

Inverness or Palermo?

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.

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

InvernessPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 39 points.39
InvernessPalermo
Score2867
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km113
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Palermo leads by 29 points.29
InvernessPalermo
Score2150
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1113
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 30 points.30
InvernessPalermo
Score2050
Museums within 10 km632
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %8381
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Palermo leads by 38 points.38
InvernessPalermo
Score1553
Drinking venues within 4 km113799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8764
Nightclubs within 4 km416
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 27 points.27
InvernessPalermo
Score936
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8845
Park area within 2 km3 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 41 points.41
InvernessPalermo
Score041
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km3 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 33 points.33
InvernessPalermo
Score2457
Notable places within 2 km16104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
InvernessPalermo
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
InvernessPalermo
Score5277
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months17
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessPalermo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 20 m
€83-126
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureInvernessPalermo
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m14 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPalermo
City population47,380630,167
People per km²2,2893,924
Museums within 10 km342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1533
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.