VacationSelector

Inverness or Vilnius?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Vilnius
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

InvernessVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessVilnius
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km116
Coast distance1 km260 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Vilnius leads by 39 points.39
InvernessVilnius
Score2160
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1132
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 51 points.51
InvernessVilnius
Score2071
Museums within 10 km674
Museums within 2 km of centre554
Share of museums within 2 km %8373
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vilnius leads by 31 points.31
InvernessVilnius
Score1546
Drinking venues within 4 km113464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8784
Nightclubs within 4 km439
Nature & day trips. Vilnius leads by 32 points.32
InvernessVilnius
Score941
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Vilnius leads by 51 points.51
InvernessVilnius
Score051
Tourist attractions within 2 km327
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 41 points.41
InvernessVilnius
Score2465
Notable places within 2 km16161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vilnius leads by 22 points.22
InvernessVilnius
Score5476
Price level global84.953.1
Daily budget—€125
Year-round weather. Vilnius leads by 1 points.1
InvernessVilnius
Score5253
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm41 mm to 90 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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessVilnius
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
RigaRIX
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KUN · 82 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
1 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
KUN · 82 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

MeasureInvernessVilnius
Official languageEnglishLithuanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m98 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessVilnius
City population47,380581,475
People per km²2,2891,450
Museums within 10 km330
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre1554
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.