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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
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Havana?

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

  • families
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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, Havana 64: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Havana 40: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Havana 77: Havana leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Havana 60: Havana leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Havana 34: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Havana 38: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Havana 34: Adelaide leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Havana 38: Adelaide leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Havana 30: Adelaide leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Havana 58: Havana leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Havana 74: Havana leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Havana 22: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Havana.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on families and food and drink with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Havana 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideHavana
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation1 m59 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideHavana
City population1,387,2902,492,618
People per km²1,0713,423
Museums within 10 km1312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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