VacationSelector

Inverness or Porto?

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.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

InvernessPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 32 points.32
InvernessPorto
Score2860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km152
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 47 points.47
InvernessPorto
Score2168
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1127
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 51 points.51
InvernessPorto
Score2071
Museums within 10 km6101
Museums within 2 km of centre557
Share of museums within 2 km %8356
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Porto leads by 43 points.43
InvernessPorto
Score1558
Drinking venues within 4 km113900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8763
Nightclubs within 4 km438
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 24 points.24
InvernessPorto
Score933
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8861
Park area within 2 km3 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 65 points.65
InvernessPorto
Score065
Tourist attractions within 2 km3122
Park area within 2 km3 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 30 points.30
InvernessPorto
Score2454
Notable places within 2 km1685
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 20 points.20
InvernessPorto
Score5474
Price level global84.955.9
Daily budget—€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 19 points.19
InvernessPorto
Score5271
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months13
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FaroFAO
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureInvernessPorto
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m104 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPorto
City population47,380231,800
People per km²2,2895,599
Museums within 10 km342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre1570
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.