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Melbourne or Porto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Melbourne
60
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Porto
62
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.

MelbournePorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 5 points.5
MelbournePorto
Score5560
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1952
Coast distance4 km4 km
Water distance4 km3 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 7 points.7
MelbournePorto
Score7568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2927
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 22 points.22
MelbournePorto
Score4971
Museums within 10 km42101
Museums within 2 km of centre2457
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 16 points.16
MelbournePorto
Score7458
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6263
Nightclubs within 4 km12438
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 10 points.10
MelbournePorto
Score4333
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8161
Park area within 2 km166 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 5 points.5
MelbournePorto
Score6065
Tourist attractions within 2 km26122
Park area within 2 km166 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
MelbournePorto
Score5754
Notable places within 2 km10385
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 24 points.24
MelbournePorto
Score5074
Price level global90.255.9
Daily budget—€109
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
MelbournePorto
Score7671
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbournePorto
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
4 h 20 m
€235-292
1 stop
OPO · 12 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMelbournePorto
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m104 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbournePorto
City population5,350,705231,800
People per km²5355,599
Museums within 10 km4242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8670
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.