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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Amman?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Adelaide for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Amman for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Adelaide 68, Amman 22: Adelaide leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Amman 62: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Amman 54: Amman leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Amman 32: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Amman 45: Adelaide leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Amman 80: Amman leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Amman 38: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Amman 30: Adelaide leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Amman 42: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Amman 58: Amman leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Amman 27: Adelaide leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Amman 55: Amman leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Amman.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideAmman
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m776 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideAmman
City population1,387,2904,007,526
People per km²1,0712,385
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.