VacationSelector

Inverness or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

InvernessWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessWarsaw
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km126
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 51 points.51
InvernessWarsaw
Score2172
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1134
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 43 points.43
InvernessWarsaw
Score2063
Museums within 10 km6107
Museums within 2 km of centre560
Share of museums within 2 km %8356
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 47 points.47
InvernessWarsaw
Score1562
Drinking venues within 4 km1131,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8764
Nightclubs within 4 km4104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 46 points.46
InvernessWarsaw
Score955
Protected land share 50 km %1227
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1119
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 70 points.70
InvernessWarsaw
Score070
Tourist attractions within 2 km342
Park area within 2 km3 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 52 points.52
InvernessWarsaw
Score2476
Notable places within 2 km16299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
InvernessWarsaw
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 7 points.7
InvernessWarsaw
Score5259
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months16
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
WMI · 35 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WMI · 35 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
WMI · 35 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

MeasureInvernessWarsaw
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m118 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessWarsaw
City population47,3801,862,402
People per km²2,2893,601
Museums within 10 km3117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1576
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.