VacationSelector

Inverness or Toronto?

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.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

InvernessToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
InvernessToronto
Score2843
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km158
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 61 points.61
InvernessToronto
Score2182
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1142,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1139
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 23 points.23
InvernessToronto
Score2043
Museums within 10 km635
Museums within 2 km of centre525
Share of museums within 2 km %8371
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 54 points.54
InvernessToronto
Score1569
Drinking venues within 4 km1131,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8764
Nightclubs within 4 km4103
Nature & day trips. Toronto leads by 17 points.17
InvernessToronto
Score926
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 57 points.57
InvernessToronto
Score057
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km3 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 37 points.37
InvernessToronto
Score2461
Notable places within 2 km16128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness and Toronto are level on 54.
InvernessToronto
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 3 points.3
InvernessToronto
Score5255
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FaroFAO
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
GlasgowGLA, PIK
1 h 0 m
no fares
WIC · 127 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureInvernessToronto
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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 m76 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessToronto
City population47,3802,794,356
People per km²2,2894,434
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre15102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.