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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 Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Beijing?

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
  • families

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

Choose Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’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, Beijing 6: Adelaide leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Beijing 81: Beijing leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Beijing 93: Beijing leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Beijing 58: Beijing leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Beijing 60: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Beijing 85: Beijing leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Beijing 64: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Beijing 69: Beijing leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Beijing 72: Beijing leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Beijing 55: Beijing leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Beijing.

Your match

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

Adelaide
56match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideBeijing
Official languageEnglishPutonghua
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number000Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation1 m43 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideBeijing
City population1,387,29021,893,095
People per km²1,0711,334
Museums within 10 km1383
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Beijing somewhere new.

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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.