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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Inverness or Tunis?

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

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

Choose Tunis for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Tunis 45: Inverness leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Tunis 38: Inverness leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Inverness and Tunis are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Tunis.

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.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessTunis
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112 or 999Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation7 m4 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessTunis
City population47,380602,560
People per km²2,2892,834
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.