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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Inverness or Panama City?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’s own page.

Choose Panama City for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Panama City’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Inverness 20, Panama City 44: Panama City leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Panama City 57: Panama City leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Panama City 74: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Panama City 50: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Panama City 45: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Panama City 40: Inverness leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Panama City 52: Panama City leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Panama City 55: Panama City leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Panama City 34: Panama City leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Panama City 22: Inverness leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Panama City.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Panama City
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Inverness has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

Panama City has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre). Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessPanama City
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Balboa (PAB)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m20 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPanama City
City population47,3801,540,000
People per km²2,2895,600
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.