VacationSelector

Inverness or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InvernessTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 47 points.47
InvernessTampa
Score2875
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 33 points.33
InvernessTampa
Score2154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1131
Museums & heritage. Tampa leads by 7 points.7
InvernessTampa
Score2027
Museums within 10 km613
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %8377
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 24 points.24
InvernessTampa
Score1539
Drinking venues within 4 km113324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8770
Nightclubs within 4 km426
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 21 points.21
InvernessTampa
Score930
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8872
Park area within 2 km3 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Tampa leads by 30 points.30
InvernessTampa
Score030
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km3 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 3 points.3
InvernessTampa
Score2421
Notable places within 2 km1613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
InvernessTampa
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 23 points.23
InvernessTampa
Score5275
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months11
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureInvernessTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessTampa
City population47,380384,959
People per km²2,289848
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1547
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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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. 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.