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Melbourne or Tromso?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on 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.

MelbourneTromso
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneTromso
Score5552
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1914
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance4 km0 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 51 points.51
MelbourneTromso
Score7524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,88885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2916
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 26 points.26
MelbourneTromso
Score4923
Museums within 10 km4210
Museums within 2 km of centre248
Share of museums within 2 km %5780
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 67 points.67
MelbourneTromso
Score747
Drinking venues within 4 km1,92167
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,20061
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6291
Nightclubs within 4 km1245
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 32 points.32
MelbourneTromso
Score4311
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %8165
Park area within 2 km166 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 46 points.46
MelbourneTromso
Score6014
Tourist attractions within 2 km269
Park area within 2 km166 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 29 points.29
MelbourneTromso
Score5728
Notable places within 2 km10320
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tromso leads by 4 points.4
MelbourneTromso
Score5054
Price level global90.285.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 43 points.43
MelbourneTromso
Score7633
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm56 mm to 128 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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureMelbourneTromso
Official languageEnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation31 m20 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneTromso
City population5,350,70579,943
People per km²53532
Museums within 10 km428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8623
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. 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.