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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
Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Antwerp?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Antwerp for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Antwerp’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, Antwerp 15: Adelaide leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Antwerp 62: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Antwerp 73: Antwerp leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Antwerp 56: Antwerp leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Antwerp 33: Adelaide leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Antwerp 86: Antwerp leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Antwerp 62: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Antwerp 75: Antwerp leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Antwerp 70: Antwerp leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Antwerp 38: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Antwerp 58: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Antwerp 30: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Antwerp.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Adelaide
56match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Antwerp
55match

Wins on day trips and shopping 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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideAntwerp
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m7 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideAntwerp
City population1,387,290529,247
People per km²1,0712,542
Museums within 10 km1338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km09
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months-

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.