VacationSelector

Liverpool or Sydney?

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

Your match

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on year-round weather and places to eat 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.

LiverpoolSydney
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool and Sydney are level on 60.
LiverpoolSydney
Score6060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km34160
Coast distance2 km7 km
Water distance2 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 18 points.18
LiverpoolSydney
Score6078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5422,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
LiverpoolSydney
Score4351
Museums within 10 km2344
Museums within 2 km of centre1220
Share of museums within 2 km %5245
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
LiverpoolSydney
Score6175
Drinking venues within 4 km9772,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6511,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6769
Nightclubs within 4 km79120
Nature & day trips. Liverpool and Sydney are level on 58.
LiverpoolSydney
Score5858
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6052
Park area within 2 km81 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
LiverpoolSydney
Score5864
Tourist attractions within 2 km2537
Park area within 2 km81 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 10 points.10
LiverpoolSydney
Score5060
Notable places within 2 km68123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Liverpool leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolSydney
Score5450
Price level global84.990.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 27 points.27
LiverpoolSydney
Score5481
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolSydney
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
8 h 5 m
€498-549
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
19 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
9 h 55 m
€539-575
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
11 h 15 m
€518-556
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureLiverpoolSydney
Official languageEnglishEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999000
Elevation70 m6 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolSydney
City population513,4415,450,496
People per km²4,592449
Museums within 10 km3138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4979
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

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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.