Australia and New Zealand
The two big cities and Auckland across the Tasman. 3 stops, 3,343 km end to end as the crow flies.
The stops, in order
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Sydney
Australia · best Jul, Aug, Sep
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Melbourne
Australia · best Jan, Feb, Nov
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Auckland
New Zealand · best Jan, Feb, Oct
Month by month
| Place | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Sydney | 26° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 19° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 23° | 25° |
| Melbourne | 26° | 25° | 23° | 19° | 15° | 13° | 12° | 13° | 16° | 18° | 21° | 23° |
| Auckland | 23° | 24° | 22° | 20° | 18° | 16° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 17° | 20° | 22° |
| Sweet spots | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.
Between the stops
| Sydney → Melbourne | 706 km, about 1h 47m in the air Nonstop, about 77 a day · 6 airlines By train: about 11h 10m · 621 · Craigieburn |
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| Melbourne → Auckland | 2,637 km, about 4h 08m in the air Nonstop, about 11 a day · 5 airlines |
Distances are great-circle and the flight time is estimated from them. A road, train or bus line is listed only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, trains and buses from public timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each stop's page are where prices live.
Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Australia and New Zealand as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.