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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

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

Innsbruck 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 Innsbruck for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • 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. Innsbruck 20, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Melbourne 57: Innsbruck leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Melbourne 70: Innsbruck leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Melbourne 62: Innsbruck leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Melbourne 76: Innsbruck leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Melbourne 31: Innsbruck leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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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InnsbruckMelbourne

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckMelbourne
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation574 m31 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckMelbourne
City population132,4995,350,705
People per km²1,263535
Museums within 10 km2843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.