Things to do in Melbourne
this Spring 2025
Hi friends!
Spring is here!! (well, somewhat 😂) and it’s my second favourite season of the year (after autumn of course)!
This season is packed with plenty of new openings, unique experiences and fun events across the city (and in regional Victoria) that will make you forget about the winter blues.
Whether you're a local or just visiting, this guide will take you through some of my favourite things to do in Melbourne this Spring, from hidden gems to must-see experiences!
For more events and experiences across Melbourne, feel free to check out my Ultimate Melbourne Bucket List.
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Trending: Melbourne Events in Spring
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🌷 Tesselaar Tulip Festival
Find over a million flowers in bloom at the Tesselaar Tulip Festival. There’s rows of stunning tulips, live entertainment and plenty of food truck options. Or you can pack your own food for a picnic.
📍 Silvan
🐶 Dog-friendly
📅 13 Sep - 12 Oct 2025
💰 $36 per adult
🌙 Museum After Dark
Experience Melbourne Museum after hours (and child-free) with a series of monthly events featuring two levels of exhibitions, interactive activities, plus live music, food and drinks until 9:30pm.
📍 Melbourne Museum
📅 18 Sep 2025, 9 Oct 2025, 13 Nov 2025
💰 $25 per adult
🌷 See 43,000+ tulips at Bendigo Annual Tulip Display
Each year in Spring, the City of Bendigo celebrates the blooming of 43,000 tulips across the city with their annual “Bloom” festival. Local businesses get together to curate floral inspired activities, menu offerings and experiences to make for a fun weekend road trip!
📍 Bendigo
📅 Mid Sep 2025 - early Oct 2025
💰 Free
🌸 🍒 Cherry Blossom Festival
The Blossom Festival is back at Cherry Hill Orchards showcasing their stunning cherry blossoms in bloom! Have a stroll at their expansive 100-acre orchard, enjoy live music and entertainment, plus a bunch of food and drink options available.
📍 Cherry Hill Orchards
📅 24 Sep – 5 Oct 2025
💰 $15 per adult
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🎡 Melbourne Royal Show
Victoria’s largest and most iconic community event is back! At the Melbourne Royal Show, you can expect the ultimate family day out with thrilling rides, cute farm animals, showbags, tasty snacks and live entertainment.
📍 Melbourne Showgrounds
📅 25 Sep - 5 Oct 2025
💰 Prices vary per ticket
🌕 Queen Victoria Market Moon Festival
A cultural Moon Festival will be popping up at the Queen Victoria Maket. Enjoy lantern displays, cultural performances, delicious festive eats, and family-friendly activities.
📍 Queen Victoria Market
📅 27 & 28 Sep 2025
💰 Prices vary
🌈 Melbourne Fringe Festival
Dive into the chaos and creativity of Melbourne Fringe Festival: where you can find boundary-pushing performances, unexpected art, immersive experiences and surprise pop-ups.
📍 multiple locations across Melbourne
📅 1 - 20 Oct 2025
💰 Prices vary
🛍️ Finders Keepers Market
Shop from over 260 independent brands and local makers at this year’s Finders Keepers Market at the Royal Exhibition Building. There’s live music, plenty of food options and free creative activities.
📍 Royal Exhibition Building
📅 10 - 12 Oct 2025
💰 $12 entry per adult
🎮 Australia’s Biggest Gaming Festival: PAX
An annual celebration of gaming and gaming culture at PAX: expect a massive expo hall filled with the best publishers and independent studios, game demos, tournaments, and a community experience unlike any other.
📍 Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
📅 10 - 12 Oct 2025
💰 starts at $80 per one day badge
🧥 Melbourne Fashion Week
Celebrate the best of Australian Fashion at Melbourne Fashion Week: expect unexpected runways, expert talks, hands-on workshops, experiences and pop-up fashion moments.
📍 Multiple locations across Melbourne
📅 20 - 26 Oct 2025
💰 Prices vary
🐶 Dog Lovers Festival
An entire festival dedicated for people who love dogs. Meet cute breeds of dogs, shop for the latest innovations in dog care and watch impressive performances by talented dogs!
📍 Melbourne Showgrounds
📅 25 - 26 Oct 2025
💰 40.50 + booking fee for adult tickets
🥕 Dinner by the world’s smallest chef: Le Petit Chef
This immersive dining experience features 3D-projection mapping to tell the story of the world’s smallest Le Petit Chef cooking your meal right in front of you.
📍 Hyatt Place Melbourne Caribbean Park
📅 until 31 Dec 2025
💰 $155 per adult
Best things to do in Melbourne this Spring
🎮 NEW ACMI: Game Worlds Exhibition
A brand new gaming-themed exhibition is coming to ACMI and it features more than 30 video games across 50 years ofplay. You’ll find original builds, rare design materieals and prototypes you won’t find anywhere else.
📍 ACMI Melbourne’s CBD
📅 Thu 18 Sep 2025 – Sun 8 Feb 2026
💰 $40 for full priced tickets
🚣 Studley Park Boathouse
One of my favourite spots to hang out in Melbourne on a sunny day! Here you can enjoy brunch or drinks by the Yarra, take a stroll along the walking track or hire a boat (it’s harder than it looks, but very fun)!
📍 Kew
📅 Open all year round
💰 Prices vary by activity
🌸 Explore the Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory
Step inside the Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory and you’ll feel like you’ve wandered into a living postcard! Bursting with seasonal floral displays beneath its Spanish-style glasshouse, it’s a little pocket of colour and calm right in the city.
📍 Fitzroy Gardens
📅 Open all year round
💰 Free
💄 Explore Melbourne’s Biggest beauty destination
Introducing Melbourne’s ultimate beauty destination: MECCA Bourke Street. It’s home to 3 levels, 200 brands and 80 services. There’s also a MECCA Cafe, Scensorium, plus you can get your hair, make-up and nails done all in 90 minutes!
📍 Bourke Street
📅 Open all year round
🛶 Sunset Kayak with Dinner along the Yarra
Enjoy the city from a different perspective with a sunset kayak tour (with dinner!) No kayaking experience needed and it’s a beautiful way to experience the city with the sun setting along the Yarra River.
📍 Southbank
📅 Open all year round
💰 from $120 per adult
🖼️ Explore Monsalvat
Find beautiful Wisteria (in Mid Sep) and Australia’s oldest artist community at Monsalvat. Wander through galleries and unique sculptures on the property, or attend one of their creative events.
📍 Eltham
📅 Open all year round
💰 Prices vary based on activity
🌲 Treetops Adventure
If you’re up for something a little more adventurous, check out Treetops Adventure: a tree ropes course where you take on a bunch of different ziplines and obstacles across a 2.5 hour session.
📍 Belgrave & Yeodene
📅 Open all year round
💰 Adults $69 - Children $59
🐴 Horse Trail Rides
I recently tried this for the first time and it was such an amazing experience! Meet beautiful horses and go on a guided trail ride through the forest. I was actually a little bit scared at first, but the horses are so beautiful and calm (and the staff are super friendly).
📍 Dandenong Ranges
📅 Open all year round
💰 Prices start from $100
💐 Bloomin’ Marvellous Floristry Workshop
Learn how to create and style the perfect flower bouquet from a professional florist Bloomin’ Marvellous Floristry. The instructors are super passionate about the craft. Workshops include a complimentary glass of bubbles and tea (and take home the bouquet).
📍 Malvern East
📅 Open all year round
💰 from $92 per person
🌿 Stroll through the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens
A little further out from the city, you’ll find the unexpectedly beautiful landscapes at the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens. It’s a massive 360 hectare space with plenty of scenic walking trails, picnic spots and a huge collective of Australian native plants.
📍 Cranbourne
📅 Open all year round
💰 Free
🎯 Arrow Tag at Archery Attack
Paintball hurts, try indoor archery instead! At this indoor archery arena, you’ll play a hybrid mix of paintball, archery and dodgeball to play arrow tag in a social or private session.
📍 Reservoir
📅 Open all year round
💰 Prices start from $30 per adult
🖼️ Look at art at Heide Museum of Modern Art
A hidden gem that has an art museum, sculpture park and heritage gardens all in one place. There’s plenty of space and things to do here so you can enjoy a picnic in the gardens or have lunch at Heide Kitchen.
📍 Bulleen
📅 Open everyday except Mondays
💰 Prices start at $27
🌹 Werribee Rose State Garden & Werribee Mansion
Find over 5,000 roses in varying colours and varieties across this beautifully manicured garden (designed in a shape of a rose!). Right next door is the Werribee Park Mansion - home to this huge renaissance mansion with over 60 rooms across several wings and lush landscapes.
📍 Werribee Park
📅 Open all year round
💰 Garden entry is free and Mansion tickets are $12.20 for adults
💨 Trampoline Class at Boogie Bounce
Who said workouts had to be boring? Boogie Bounce turns fitness into pure high-energy cardio, strength, and core training all on a mini trampoline with music pumping. The location linked is quite small and humble, but the session was really fun!
📍 Bayside
📅 Open all year round
💰 starts at $15 per class
🛶 Punting on the Lake at Royal Botanical Gardens
I’ve lived here my whole life and never tried it cause it felt pretty “touristy”. But I tried it last year and it was actually a very cute and relaxing experience! Enjoy a 30-60 minute punting session while floating across the lake.
📍 Royal Botanical Gardens.
🐶 Dog-friendly
📅 everyday from 1 Oct 2025 (except Christmas)
💰 $90 per boat of 3 adults
Hungry? What to eat in Melbourne this Spring
Here are some of my favourite food experiences and bites that I’ve been loving recently:
🥐 Pastries at Amann Patisserie
A beautiful pastry door that specialises in viennoiseries and pâtisseries. They do small bath pastry production with French notes.
📍 Carlton North
🫖 Artistic High Tea at Oxi Tea Room
Oxi Tea Room is not your typical high tea spot, they serve premium refined Kenyan and Taiwanese teas paired with inventive desserts and seasonal twists on high tea.
📍 Carlton
🍵 Go on a Matcha Crawl
Matcha is definitely having a moment right now and along with Wander Wider, we’ve put together a list of specialty Matcha spots to check out.
🍔 Comfort food at Butcher’s Diner
This late-night spot comes in hot with in-house whole cuts of specialised meat and smashed patties for the ultimate comfort food meal. Hot tip: get the cheeseburger!!
📍 Bourke Street, Melbourne’s CBD
🇲🇾 Taste modern Inventive Malaysian at Ho Jiak
Ho Jiak takes Malaysian flavours you know and love and flips them into bold, modern plates. It’s chef Junda’s love letter to his late grandmother rewritten with a fresh, contemporary twist.
📍 Rainbow Alley, Melbourne’s CBD
🥳 Watch my Ultimate Melbourne Food Tour ✨
New to the city and want to find all the best spots to eat? I’ve created this video guide to show you some of the flavours that make Melbourne the foodie capital of Australia!
Think bustling markets, quality coffee and some of the city’s best breakfast treats.
For more events and experiences across Melbourne, feel free to check out my Ultimate Melbourne Bucket List.