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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Inverness or Savannah?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Savannah for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Savannah leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Savannah 68: Savannah leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Savannah 48: Inverness leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Savannah 60: Savannah leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Savannah 50: Inverness leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Savannah 42: Savannah leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Savannah 35: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Savannah.

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.

Savannah
Best match
51match

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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessSavannah
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m15 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessSavannah
City population47,380147,780
People per km²2,289524
Museums within 10 km319
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. 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.