🍩 Best donuts in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best donuts. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Brisbane has Australia’s strongest donuts — led by Dough Ma (4.5★ across 263 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best donuts	Rating	Reviews
1	Brisbane	Dough Ma Upper Mount Gravatt	4.5★	263
2	Perth	Chu Bakery Highgate	4.6★	2,020
3	Hobart	Circle of Life Doughnut Co CBD	4.4★	162
4	Melbourne	American Doughnut Kitchen CBD	4.5★	1,131
5	Sydney	Grumpy Donuts Camperdown	4.5★	761
6	Adelaide	Dough CBD	4.5★	85
7	Cairns	Bury Me Standing Cairns City	4.9★	243
8	Geelong	Patiala Bakers Belmont	4.7★	819
9	Newcastle	Glazed	4.9★	217
10	Sunshine Coast	Envie French Bakery Alexandra Headland	4.7★	608
11	Gold Coast	Paddock Bakery Burleigh Heads	4.5★	3,996
12	Wollongong	C9 Chocolate and Gelato Wollongong CBD	4.7★	278
13	Darwin	Breadtop Gateway Yarrawonga	4.8★	82
14	Canberra	Kynefin Cafe Hall	4.5★	281

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own donuts ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Brisbane · Perth · Hobart · Melbourne · Sydney · Adelaide · Cairns · Geelong · Newcastle · Sunshine Coast · Gold Coast · Wollongong · Darwin · Canberra.