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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Melbourne or Stockholm?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Stockholm 64: Melbourne leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Stockholm 57: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne and Stockholm are level on 70.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Stockholm 30: Melbourne leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Stockholm 65: Melbourne leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Melbourne
64match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
64match

Wins on culture and sights and families 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m22 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneStockholm
City population5,350,705984,748
People per km²5355,260
Museums within 10 km43266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.