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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 Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Athens?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Athens for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Athens’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, Athens 70: Athens leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Athens 78: Athens leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Athens 88: Athens leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Athens 80: Athens leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Athens 64: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Athens 85: Athens leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Athens 58: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Athens 66: Athens leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Athens 55: Athens leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Athens 56: Athens leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Athens 64: Athens leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide and Athens are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Athens.

Your match

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

Adelaide
56match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideAthens
Official languageEnglishGreek
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m74 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideAthens
City population1,387,290643,452
People per km²1,07116,499
Museums within 10 km1388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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. 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.