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Frankston North

Frankston North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 38 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Frankston local government area.

Frankston North
Frankston North · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Frankston North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 38 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Frankston local government area. Frankston North recorded a population of 5,711 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Frankston North

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park

    McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery is an Australian sculpture park and gallery located in Langwarrin in Melbourne, Victoria. It displays more than 100 large-scale works by prominent Australian sculptors in 16 hectares of bush and landscaped gardens.

    3.3 km · art museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Frankston Arts Centre

    The Frankston Arts Centre is a landmark theatre and art gallery in the outer Melbourne suburb of Frankston in Victoria, Australia. The centre plays host to a number of major performances, including regular shows by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Victorian Opera, and is a tour venue for the Australian Opera, Bell Shakespeare Company, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sydney Dance Company as well as a number of other national production companies.

    3.6 km · theatre and gallery in Frankston, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Frankston Park

    Frankston Park is an Australian rules football venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston. It is home to the Frankston Football Club, which plays in the Victorian Football League.

    3.9 km · Australian football ground · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bayside Shopping Centre

    Bayside Shopping Centre is a regional shopping centre in Frankston, Victoria, Australia, approximately 40 kilometres south of Melbourne CBD. Since its opening in 1972, it has amassed a combined gross leasable area of 88,843 m2, 3,452 parking spaces and over 200 retail outlets. The center consists of 5 distinct main sections, 3 of which operated independently before merging into a single megastore in the late 1990s.

    3.2 km · regional shopping centre located in Frankston, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Frankston North

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 57 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 61 km
Stations
Kananook, 1.6 km · Frankston, 3.2 km · Leawarra, 3.4 km
  • Melbourne → Frankston North
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · A$6–8
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Frankston North
    34 km · quickest by road, 57 min · A$5–7
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Frankston North
    561 km · quickest by air, 6h 27m · A$270–400
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Frankston North

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Frankston North. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextStony Point - Take the train to Stony Point, where ferries leave for French Island and Phillip Island.

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne/Frankston, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    603 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    750 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,621 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,026 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,250 km

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Around it

Next door to Frankston North

Frankston North is 38 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Carrum Downssuburb of Melbourne, Australia3.7 km
  • Langwarrinsuburb of Melbourne, Australia4 km
  • Seafordsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.7 km