VacationSelector

Inverness or Paphos?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Paphos
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InvernessPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 51 points.51
InvernessPaphos
Score2879
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Paphos leads by 23 points.23
InvernessPaphos
Score2144
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1122
Museums & heritage. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
InvernessPaphos
Score2022
Museums within 10 km68
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %8338
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 15 points.15
InvernessPaphos
Score1530
Drinking venues within 4 km113224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8772
Nightclubs within 4 km411
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 14 points.14
InvernessPaphos
Score923
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8833
Park area within 2 km3 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 42 points.42
InvernessPaphos
Score042
Tourist attractions within 2 km330
Park area within 2 km3 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 5 points.5
InvernessPaphos
Score2419
Notable places within 2 km1612
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 16 points.16
InvernessPaphos
Score5470
Price level global84.961.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 34 points.34
InvernessPaphos
Score5286
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 0 m
€129-174
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
GlasgowGLA, PIK
1 h 0 m
no fares
WIC · 127 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
RigaRIX
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 40 m
€224-279
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
PFO · 8 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

MeasureInvernessPaphos
Official languageEnglishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m72 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPaphos
City population47,38035,961
People per km²2,2891,987
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1536
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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.