VacationSelector

Inverness or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

InvernessRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
InvernessRotterdam
Score2837
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 51 points.51
InvernessRotterdam
Score2172
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1146
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 40 points.40
InvernessRotterdam
Score2060
Museums within 10 km641
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %8349
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 34 points.34
InvernessRotterdam
Score1549
Drinking venues within 4 km113542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8770
Nightclubs within 4 km440
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 33 points.33
InvernessRotterdam
Score942
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8879
Park area within 2 km3 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 62 points.62
InvernessRotterdam
Score062
Tourist attractions within 2 km327
Park area within 2 km3 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
InvernessRotterdam
Score2451
Notable places within 2 km1674
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
InvernessRotterdam
Score5458
Price level global84.979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
InvernessRotterdam
Score5256
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months10
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessRotterdam
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 50 m
€274-294
1 stop
RTM · 5 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
FaroFAO
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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

MeasureInvernessRotterdam
Official languageEnglishDutch
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112 or 911
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessRotterdam
City population47,380664,311
People per km²2,2892,080
Museums within 10 km340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre1577
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.