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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Melbourne or Nice?

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 Melbourne for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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. Melbourne 50, Nice 75: Nice leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Nice 66: Melbourne leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Nice 64: Nice leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Nice 47: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Nice 80: Nice leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Nice 87: Nice leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Nice 57: Melbourne leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Nice 74: Melbourne leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Nice 55: Melbourne leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Nice 35: Nice leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Nice 45: Melbourne leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Nice 40: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Nice.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Nice
60match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneNice
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m0 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneNice
City population5,350,705357,737
People per km²5354,975
Museums within 10 km4317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.