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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Inverness or Phnom Penh?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Inverness leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Phnom Penh 28: Inverness leads by 56 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Phnom Penh 34: Inverness leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Phnom Penh 32: Inverness leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Phnom Penh 35: Inverness leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Phnom Penh 32: Inverness leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Phnom Penh 50: Phnom Penh leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Phnom Penh.

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.

Phnom Penh
Best match
44match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InvernessPhnom Penh

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.

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessPhnom Penh
Official languageEnglishKhmer
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Riel (KHR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation7 m11 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPhnom Penh
City population47,3802,129,371
People per km²2,2893,138
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.