VacationSelector

Atlanta or Melbourne?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AtlantaMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
AtlantaMelbourne
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km019
Coast distance373 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 16 points.16
AtlantaMelbourne
Score5975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2329
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaMelbourne
Score3549
Museums within 10 km4142
Museums within 2 km of centre1624
Share of museums within 2 km %3957
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaMelbourne
Score4974
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2841,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5362
Nightclubs within 4 km46124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 12 points.12
AtlantaMelbourne
Score3143
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10081
Park area within 2 km113 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 28 points.28
AtlantaMelbourne
Score3260
Tourist attractions within 2 km226
Park area within 2 km113 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaMelbourne
Score4057
Notable places within 2 km39103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Melbourne leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaMelbourne
Score4350
Price level global10090.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaMelbourne
Score6776
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm45 mm to 69 mm
Dry months00
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaMelbourne
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
17 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
4 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
15 h 35 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
SantiagoSCL
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Abu DhabiAUH
15 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 19 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaMelbourne
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation225 m31 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaMelbourne
City population498,7155,350,705
People per km²1,433535
Museums within 10 km2742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5686
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. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.