VacationSelector

Inverness or Venice?

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.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

InvernessVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 41 points.41
InvernessVenice
Score2869
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 24 points.24
InvernessVenice
Score2145
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1110
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 52 points.52
InvernessVenice
Score2072
Museums within 10 km657
Museums within 2 km of centre545
Share of museums within 2 km %8379
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Venice leads by 20 points.20
InvernessVenice
Score1535
Drinking venues within 4 km113342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8789
Nightclubs within 4 km43
Nature & day trips. Venice leads by 8 points.8
InvernessVenice
Score917
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8870
Park area within 2 km3 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 57 points.57
InvernessVenice
Score057
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km3 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 59 points.59
InvernessVenice
Score2483
Notable places within 2 km16464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
InvernessVenice
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 14 points.14
InvernessVenice
Score5266
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months12
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 40 m
€107-148
1 stop
TSF · 26 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureInvernessVenice
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessVenice
City population47,380250,369
People per km²2,289602
Museums within 10 km352
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre1546
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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. 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.