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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
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Dubrovnik?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • families

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’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, Dubrovnik 74: Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Dubrovnik 47: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Dubrovnik 37: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Dubrovnik 70: Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Dubrovnik 66: Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Dubrovnik 50: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Dubrovnik 25: Adelaide leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Dubrovnik 28: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Dubrovnik 25: Adelaide leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Dubrovnik 32: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Dubrovnik.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 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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Where the figures come from

Dubrovnik 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.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideDubrovnik
Official languageEnglishCroatian
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 m10 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideDubrovnik
City population1,387,29041,562
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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.