VacationSelector

Melbourne or Nice?

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

Your match

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Nice
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

MelbourneNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 18 points.18
MelbourneNice
Score5573
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1970
Coast distance4 km1 km
Water distance4 km1 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 6 points.6
MelbourneNice
Score7569
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2928
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneNice
Score4946
Museums within 10 km4227
Museums within 2 km of centre2414
Share of museums within 2 km %5752
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 30 points.30
MelbourneNice
Score7444
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6291
Nightclubs within 4 km12426
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 14 points.14
MelbourneNice
Score4357
Protected land share 50 km %624
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %8162
Park area within 2 km166 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 30 points.30
MelbourneNice
Score6030
Tourist attractions within 2 km264
Park area within 2 km166 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 10 points.10
MelbourneNice
Score5747
Notable places within 2 km10360
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneNice
Score5062
Price level global90.273.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
MelbourneNice
Score7674
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneNice
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
Abu DhabiAUH
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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

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 centre66 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 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 km4216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8665
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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. 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.