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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The cathedral and the Leaning Tower, Pisa
PisaThe cathedral and the Leaning Tower

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Pisa by Bruno Kraler, Pexels License.

Inverness or Pisa?

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

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

Choose Pisa for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Pisa’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, Pisa 58: Pisa leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Pisa 55: Pisa leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Pisa 68: Pisa leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Pisa 40: Pisa leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Pisa 62: Inverness leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Pisa 92: Pisa leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Pisa 52: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Pisa 76: Pisa leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Pisa 38: Pisa leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Pisa 55: Pisa leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Pisa 38: Pisa leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Pisa 45: Pisa leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Pisa.

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.

Pisa
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Pisa in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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.

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPisa
City population47,38088,737
People per km²2,289479
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.