VacationSelector

Melbourne or Split?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MelbourneSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 18 points.18
MelbourneSplit
Score5573
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1987
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance4 km0 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 37 points.37
MelbourneSplit
Score7538
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2915
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneSplit
Score4952
Museums within 10 km4218
Museums within 2 km of centre2416
Share of museums within 2 km %5789
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 33 points.33
MelbourneSplit
Score7441
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6269
Nightclubs within 4 km12423
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneSplit
Score4338
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8162
Park area within 2 km166 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 34 points.34
MelbourneSplit
Score6026
Tourist attractions within 2 km269
Park area within 2 km166 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
MelbourneSplit
Score5742
Notable places within 2 km10343
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 30 points.30
MelbourneSplit
Score5080
Price level global90.248.5
Daily budget—€138
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneSplit
Score7669
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm25 mm to 117 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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneSplit
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 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.

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneSplit
Official languageEnglishCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSplit
City population5,350,705160,577
People per km²535–
Museums within 10 km4211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre8631
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.