VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Melbourne?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Hong KongMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
Hong KongMelbourne
Score8755
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6519
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongMelbourne
Score8875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongMelbourne
Score3649
Museums within 10 km5042
Museums within 2 km of centre1724
Share of museums within 2 km %3457
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
Hong KongMelbourne
Score7174
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,1541,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5962
Nightclubs within 4 km37124
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 21 points.21
Hong KongMelbourne
Score6443
Protected land share 50 km %86
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2981
Park area within 2 km52 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongMelbourne
Score5860
Tourist attractions within 2 km2726
Park area within 2 km52 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongMelbourne
Score6957
Notable places within 2 km204103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongMelbourne
Score6350
Price level global7290.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongMelbourne
Score7476
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm45 mm to 69 mm
Dry months40
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongMelbourne
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
4 h 45 m
€330-393
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
5 h 50 m
€420-587
MEL · 19 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
3 h 40 m
€202-224
HKG · 25 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 40 m
€246-288
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
SydneySYD, WSI
9 h 20 m
€553-662
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€119-126
MEL · 19 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureHong KongMelbourne
Official languageStandard ChineseEnglish
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number999000
Elevation7 m31 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongMelbourne
City population7,413,0705,350,705
People per km²535
Museums within 10 km3942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7686
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.