VacationSelector

Melbourne or Stuttgart?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

MelbourneStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneStuttgart
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km193
Coast distance4 km476 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 16 points.16
MelbourneStuttgart
Score7559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2929
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneStuttgart
Score4956
Museums within 10 km4265
Museums within 2 km of centre2421
Share of museums within 2 km %5732
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 25 points.25
MelbourneStuttgart
Score7449
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km12453
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 37 points.37
MelbourneStuttgart
Score4380
Protected land share 50 km %651
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
MelbourneStuttgart
Score6045
Tourist attractions within 2 km2611
Park area within 2 km166 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 13 points.13
MelbourneStuttgart
Score5744
Notable places within 2 km10350
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 10 points.10
MelbourneStuttgart
Score5060
Price level global90.275.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 13 points.13
MelbourneStuttgart
Score7663
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months03
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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneStuttgart
SingaporeSIN, XSP
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
5 h 50 m
€420-587
MEL · 19 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
Hong KongHKG
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
8 h 35 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
11 h 5 m
€693-750
3 stops
FRA · 146 km
New DelhiDEL
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 146 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

MeasureMelbourneStuttgart
Official languageEnglishGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneStuttgart
City population5,350,705633,484
People per km²5353,054
Museums within 10 km4242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8659
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.