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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
Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Key West?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • food and drink

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

Choose Key West for

  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’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, Key West 60: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Key West 45: Adelaide leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Key West 40: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Key West 62: Key West leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Key West 62: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Key West 28: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Key West 40: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Key West 62: Key West leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Key West 30: Adelaide leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Key West 15: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Key West 38: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Key West 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 Key West.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Key West
44match

Wins on nightlife 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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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). Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideKey West
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 m4 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideKey West
City population1,387,29026,444
People per km²1,0711,407
Museums within 10 km137
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.