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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 Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Berlin?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Berlin for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Berlin’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, Berlin 38: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Berlin 66: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Berlin 86: Berlin leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Berlin 98: Berlin leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Berlin 50: Adelaide leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Berlin 66: Berlin leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Berlin 76: Berlin leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Berlin 82: Berlin leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Berlin 68: Berlin leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Berlin 48: Berlin leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Berlin 90: Berlin leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Berlin 55: Berlin leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Berlin.

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.

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights 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

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 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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AdelaideBerlin

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideBerlin
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m34 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideBerlin
City population1,387,2903,700,577
People per km²1,0714,153
Museums within 10 km13157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.