VacationSelector

Inverness or West Palm Beach?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
✓ Best match
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

InvernessWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 60 points.60
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score2888
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.16
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score2137
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1114
Museums & heritage. Inverness leads by 3 points.3
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score2017
Museums within 10 km65
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %8360
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. West Palm Beach leads by 5 points.5
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score1520
Drinking venues within 4 km113132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9890
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8768
Nightclubs within 4 km410
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 60 points.60
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score969
Protected land share 50 km %1215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8845
Park area within 2 km3 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. West Palm Beach leads by 21 points.21
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score021
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km3 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Inverness leads by 12 points.12
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score2412
Notable places within 2 km168
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness leads by 11 points.11
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 23 points.23
InvernessWest Palm Beach
Score5275
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureInvernessWest Palm Beach
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessWest Palm Beach
City population47,380117,415
People per km²2,289786
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre1518
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.