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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Melbourne or Toronto?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Toronto for

  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Melbourne leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Toronto 70: Melbourne leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Toronto 50: Melbourne leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Toronto 62: Melbourne leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Toronto 52: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Toronto 50: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Toronto 65: Melbourne leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Toronto 66: Melbourne leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne and Toronto are level on 72.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Toronto 33: Melbourne leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Toronto.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

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

Toronto
55match

Wins on prices 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

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MelbourneToronto

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre69 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 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 km4332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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.