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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 Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Keystone?

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

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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, Keystone 5: Adelaide leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Keystone 27: Adelaide leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Keystone 7: Adelaide leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Keystone 12: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Keystone 55: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Keystone 66: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Keystone 50: Adelaide leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Keystone 22: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Keystone 12: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Keystone 22: Adelaide leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Keystone 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 Keystone.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 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

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideKeystone
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-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m2,796 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideKeystone
City population1,387,2901,369
People per km²1,07113
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.