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Amalfi and its harbour below the cliff, Amalfi
AmalfiAmalfi and its harbour below the cliff
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Amalfi by Oleksandra Zelena, Pexels License; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amalfi or Melbourne?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amalfi for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Amalfi’s own page.

Choose Melbourne for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amalfi 64, Melbourne 50: Amalfi leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Amalfi 48, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Amalfi 36, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Amalfi 12, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 63 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amalfi 82, Melbourne 70: Amalfi leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Amalfi 88, Melbourne 62: Amalfi leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Amalfi 28, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Amalfi 48, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Amalfi 34, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Amalfi 18, Melbourne 31: Melbourne leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amalfi 22, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amalfi 32, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amalfi and Melbourne.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amalfi
43match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amalfi in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
28 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amalfi's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Amalfi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amalfi: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (64.7 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmalfiMelbourne
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation6 m31 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)38 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmalfiMelbourne
City population4,7295,350,705
People per km²830535
Museums within 10 km843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.