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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Melbourne or Savannah?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Savannah for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Savannah leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Savannah 58: Melbourne leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Savannah 68: Savannah leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Savannah 52: Melbourne leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Savannah 48: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Savannah 60: Melbourne leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Savannah 50: Melbourne leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Savannah 58: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Savannah 42: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Savannah 35: Savannah leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Savannah 40: Melbourne leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Savannah 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 Savannah.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

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

Savannah
51match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MelbourneSavannah

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneSavannah
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation31 m15 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSavannah
City population5,350,705147,780
People per km²535524
Museums within 10 km4319
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.