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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 Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Interlaken?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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, Interlaken 30: Adelaide leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Interlaken 25: Adelaide leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Interlaken 8: Adelaide leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Interlaken 15: Adelaide leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Interlaken 22: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Interlaken 8: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Interlaken 15: Adelaide leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Interlaken 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 Interlaken.

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.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Interlaken 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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideInterlaken
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m571 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideInterlaken
City population1,387,2906,123
People per km²1,0711,424
Museums within 10 km133
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.