VacationSelector

Melbourne or Stockholm?

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 year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

MelbourneStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneStockholm
Score5560
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1973
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance4 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
MelbourneStockholm
Score7576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2936
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
MelbourneStockholm
Score4969
Museums within 10 km4274
Museums within 2 km of centre2447
Share of museums within 2 km %5764
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 10 points.10
MelbourneStockholm
Score7464
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9211,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6263
Nightclubs within 4 km124106
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
MelbourneStockholm
Score4341
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8177
Park area within 2 km166 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneStockholm
Score6057
Tourist attractions within 2 km2623
Park area within 2 km166 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
MelbourneStockholm
Score5779
Notable places within 2 km103357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneStockholm
Score5057
Price level global90.280.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 23 points.23
MelbourneStockholm
Score7653
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneStockholm
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
10 h 25 m
€526-560
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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 2026-09 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

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 centre66 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 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 km42266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8681
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. 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. 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.