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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Melbourne or Salzburg?

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
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Melbourne leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Salzburg 45: Melbourne leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Salzburg 25: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Salzburg 65: Melbourne leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Salzburg 72: Melbourne leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Salzburg 48: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Salzburg 32: Salzburg leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Salzburg.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

Salzburg
58match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MelbourneSalzburg

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneSalzburg
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m424 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSalzburg
City population5,350,705155,021
People per km²5352,360
Museums within 10 km4338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.