VacationSelector

Melbourne or Toronto?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

MelbourneToronto
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneToronto
Score5543
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km1958
Coast distance4 km533 km
Water distance4 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneToronto
Score7582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8882,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2939
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 6 points.6
MelbourneToronto
Score4943
Museums within 10 km4235
Museums within 2 km of centre2425
Share of museums within 2 km %5771
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneToronto
Score7469
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9211,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6264
Nightclubs within 4 km124103
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 17 points.17
MelbourneToronto
Score4326
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneToronto
Score6057
Tourist attractions within 2 km2623
Park area within 2 km166 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
MelbourneToronto
Score5761
Notable places within 2 km103128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
MelbourneToronto
Score5054
Price level global90.284
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 21 points.21
MelbourneToronto
Score7655
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneToronto
SydneySYD, WSI
1 h 30 m
€119-126
MEL · 19 km
19 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Hong KongHKG
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New DelhiDEL
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
SantiagoSCL
13 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMelbourneToronto
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation31 m76 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneToronto
City population5,350,7052,794,356
People per km²5354,434
Museums within 10 km4232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre86102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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. 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.