🍨 Best gelato in Australia

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

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Brisbane has Australia’s strongest gelato — led by Nom Nom Natural Gelato (4.8★ across 360 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best gelato	Rating	Reviews
1	Brisbane	Nom Nom Natural Gelato Bulimba	4.8★	360
2	Melbourne	Piccolina Gelateria CBD	4.5★	1,032
3	Perth	PIETRO Gelateria East Victoria Park	4.5★	816
4	Sydney	Gelato Messina Rosebery Rosebery	4.7★	1,888
5	Canberra	Anita Gelato Canberra CBD	4.4★	538
6	Gold Coast	The Gelato Shop Broadbeach	4.6★	392
7	Adelaide	Gelato Bello Glynde	4.5★	889
8	Hobart	Van Diemens Land Creamery CBD	4.6★	1,277
9	Sunshine Coast	LUMA GELATO BOUTIQUE Mooloolaba	5★	370
10	Cairns	Gelocchio Cairns City	4.8★	1,024
11	Wollongong	Cow & The Moon Enmore	4.6★	3,633
12	Newcastle	Ballimore Farms Creamery Cooks Hill	5★	152
13	Darwin	La Granita Darwin City	4.8★	316
14	Geelong	Augustus Gelatery + Acai Geelong CBD	4.6★	727

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own gelato 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 · Melbourne · Perth · Sydney · Canberra · Gold Coast · Adelaide · Hobart · Sunshine Coast · Cairns · Wollongong · Newcastle · Darwin · Geelong.