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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 skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Fort Lauderdale?

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

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Lauderdale’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, Fort Lauderdale 88: Fort Lauderdale leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Fort Lauderdale 47: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Fort Lauderdale 28: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Fort Lauderdale 52: Fort Lauderdale leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Fort Lauderdale 62: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Fort Lauderdale 58: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Fort Lauderdale 66: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Fort Lauderdale 32: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Fort Lauderdale 52: Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Fort Lauderdale 32: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Fort Lauderdale 42: Adelaide leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Fort Lauderdale 40: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Fort Lauderdale.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
50match

Wins on beaches 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

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideFort Lauderdale

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideFort Lauderdale
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m11 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideFort Lauderdale
City population1,387,290182,760
People per km²1,0711,829
Museums within 10 km136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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. 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.