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The Esplanade boardwalk and its palms, Cairns
CairnsThe Esplanade boardwalk and its palms
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Cairns by Donaldytong, Public domain; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cairns or Turin?

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 Cairns for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Turin for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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. Cairns 62, Turin 12: Cairns leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Cairns 40, Turin 81: Turin leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Cairns 22, Turin 78: Turin leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Cairns 42, Turin 50: Turin leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairns 95, Turin 80: Cairns leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Cairns 45, Turin 84: Turin leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Cairns 66, Turin 57: Cairns leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Cairns 45, Turin 68: Turin leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Cairns 28, Turin 58: Turin leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Cairns 35, Turin 58: Turin leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairns 22, Turin 65: Turin leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairns 45, Turin 40: Cairns leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairns and Turin.

Your match

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

Cairns
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Cairns in July

24 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
30 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CairnsTurin

Where the figures come from

Cairns's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Green Island Aws.

Cairns 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.

Turin 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. Cairns: 1993-2010 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Green Island Aws (27 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairnsTurin
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation7 m239 m
Main airportCairns International Airport (CNS)6 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairnsTurin
City population146,778841,600
People per km²3016,474
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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). 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.