VacationSelector

Melbourne or Warsaw?

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, level with your weighting

Melbourne
60
match

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

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MelbourneWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneWarsaw
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1926
Coast distance4 km238 km
Water distance4 km—
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneWarsaw
Score7572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2934
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 14 points.14
MelbourneWarsaw
Score4963
Museums within 10 km42107
Museums within 2 km of centre2460
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneWarsaw
Score7462
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9211,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6264
Nightclubs within 4 km124104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneWarsaw
Score4355
Protected land share 50 km %627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 10 points.10
MelbourneWarsaw
Score6070
Tourist attractions within 2 km2642
Park area within 2 km166 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
MelbourneWarsaw
Score5776
Notable places within 2 km103299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 29 points.29
MelbourneWarsaw
Score5079
Price level global90.249
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 17 points.17
MelbourneWarsaw
Score7659
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months06
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneWarsaw
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
5 h 50 m
€420-587
MEL · 19 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New DelhiDEL
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ColomboCMB
10 h 30 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Abu DhabiAUH
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureMelbourneWarsaw
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m118 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneWarsaw
City population5,350,7051,862,402
People per km²5353,601
Museums within 10 km42117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8676
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.