VacationSelector

Inverness or Ubud?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
Inverness

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Inverness
40
match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Ubud
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

InvernessUbud
Beaches & swimming. Ubud leads by 20 points.20
Food & drink. Ubud leads by 19 points.19
Culture & sights. Ubud leads by 31 points.31
Nightlife. Inverness leads by 14 points.14
Nature & outdoors. Inverness leads by 8 points.8
Day trips. Ubud leads by 12 points.12
Good for families. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
Getting around. Inverness leads by 38 points.38
Shopping & style. Ubud leads by 20 points.20
Affordability. Ubud leads by 44 points.44
Live music & performing arts. Ubud leads by 22 points.22
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 66 points.66
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Ubud.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyInvernessUbud
Daytime high19 °C29 °C
Night-time low11 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month60 mm27 mm
Sunshine5 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperature14 °C27 °C
Daylight17 hours a day12 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure 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
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Inverness's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessUbud
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 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 2026-11 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureInvernessUbud
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m210 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessUbud
City population47,380-
People per km²2,289-
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.