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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Charles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower, Prague
PragueCharles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Prague by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Inverness or Prague?

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
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Prague for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Prague’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, Prague 10: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Prague 50: Prague leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Prague 83: Prague leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Prague 65: Prague leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Prague 58: Inverness leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Prague 77: Prague leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Prague 50: Inverness leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Prague 83: Prague leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Prague 50: Prague leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Prague 62: Prague leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Prague 76: Prague leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Prague 40: Prague leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Prague.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Prague
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Prague in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessPrague
Official languageEnglishCzech
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m235 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre178 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPrague
City population47,3801,397,880
People per km²2,2892,817
Museums within 10 km388
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.