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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley 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 Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

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. Deer Valley 10, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Melbourne 70: Deer Valley leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Melbourne 31: Melbourne leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyMelbourne
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation2,474 m31 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyMelbourne
City population-5,350,705
People per km²-535
Museums within 10 km043
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

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. 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. 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.

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.