VacationSelector

Melbourne or Pisa?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

MelbournePisa
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 34 points.34
MelbournePisa
Score5521
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km191
Coast distance4 km10 km
Water distance4 km10 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 41 points.41
MelbournePisa
Score7534
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km299
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
MelbournePisa
Score4955
Museums within 10 km4227
Museums within 2 km of centre2422
Share of museums within 2 km %5781
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 46 points.46
MelbournePisa
Score7428
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6288
Nightclubs within 4 km1243
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 4 points.4
MelbournePisa
Score4339
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8165
Park area within 2 km166 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 13 points.13
MelbournePisa
Score6047
Tourist attractions within 2 km2620
Park area within 2 km166 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 10 points.10
MelbournePisa
Score5747
Notable places within 2 km10358
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 18 points.18
MelbournePisa
Score5068
Price level global90.264.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 6 points.6
MelbournePisa
Score7670
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbournePisa
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 115 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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

MeasureMelbournePisa
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m4 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbournePisa
City population5,350,70588,737
People per km²535479
Museums within 10 km4227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8629
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.