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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Guilin 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 Guilin for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • shopping

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. Guilin 8, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Melbourne 70: Guilin leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Guilin 45, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Melbourne 31: Guilin leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Guilin
44match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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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GuilinMelbourne

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinMelbourne
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119000
Elevation153 m31 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinMelbourne
City population4,931,1375,350,705
People per km²-535
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.