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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Inverness or Tallinn?

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

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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, Tallinn 28: Tallinn leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Tallinn 55: Inverness leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Tallinn 40: Tallinn leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Tallinn.

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 with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessTallinn
Official languageEnglishEstonian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m28 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessTallinn
City population47,380457,572
People per km²2,2892,871
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.