VacationSelector

Melbourne or Vienna?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Melbourne
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MelbourneVienna
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneVienna
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1922
Coast distance4 km10,000 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
MelbourneVienna
Score7577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2937
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 32 points.32
MelbourneVienna
Score4981
Museums within 10 km42192
Museums within 2 km of centre24110
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Melbourne and Vienna are level on 74.
MelbourneVienna
Score7474
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9211,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,2001,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6256
Nightclubs within 4 km124108
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 11 points.11
MelbourneVienna
Score4332
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
MelbourneVienna
Score6069
Tourist attractions within 2 km2646
Park area within 2 km166 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 18 points.18
MelbourneVienna
Score5775
Notable places within 2 km103287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
MelbourneVienna
Score5059
Price level global90.276.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
MelbourneVienna
Score7661
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneVienna
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
Abu DhabiAUH
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
New DelhiDEL
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureMelbourneVienna
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneVienna
City population5,350,7052,028,289
People per km²5354,890
Museums within 10 km42152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre86113
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.