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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Delhi 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 Delhi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • 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. Delhi 4, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Melbourne 75: Delhi leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Melbourne 57: Delhi leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Melbourne 62: Delhi leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 41 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Melbourne 70: Delhi leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Melbourne 31: Delhi leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Delhi
53match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiMelbourne
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112000
Elevation221 m31 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiMelbourne
City population26,495,0005,350,705
People per km²18,962535
Museums within 10 km2343
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.