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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 Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Dublin?

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
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Dublin for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Adelaide leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Dublin 50: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Dublin 70: Dublin leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Dublin 57: Adelaide leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Dublin 20: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Dublin 25: Adelaide leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Dublin.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

Dublin
53match

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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideDublin
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m20 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideDublin
City population1,387,290592,713
People per km²1,0715,154
Museums within 10 km1340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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