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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Melbourne or Tel Aviv?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne and Tel Aviv are level on 57.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Tel Aviv 52: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Tel Aviv 68: Melbourne leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Tel Aviv 64: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Tel Aviv 55: Melbourne leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Tel Aviv 14: Melbourne leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Tel Aviv 70: Melbourne leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Tel Aviv 35: Melbourne leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Melbourne
64match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
62match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneTel Aviv
Official languageEnglishHebrew
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number000Police 100, fire 102
Elevation31 m5 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneTel Aviv
City population5,350,705467,875
People per km²5358,998
Museums within 10 km4398
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.