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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florence 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 Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • 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. Florence 14, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Melbourne 57: Florence leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Melbourne 62: Florence leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Melbourne 76: Florence leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Melbourne 70: Florence leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Melbourne 31: Florence leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Florence
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine 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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceMelbourne
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
Elevation50 m31 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceMelbourne
City population360,9305,350,705
People per km²3,528535
Museums within 10 km14143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.