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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
Ross Castle on Lough Leane, Killarney
KillarneyRoss Castle on Lough Leane

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Killarney by NicholasH, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Killarney?

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
  • families

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

Choose Killarney for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Killarney’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, Killarney 22: Adelaide leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Killarney 33: Adelaide leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Killarney 28: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Killarney 32: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Killarney 82: Killarney leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Killarney 58: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Killarney 42: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Killarney 47: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Killarney 22: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Killarney 35: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Killarney 35: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide and Killarney are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Killarney.

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.

Killarney
40match

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

Killarney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
88 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Killarney's temperatures are measured 53 km from the centre, at Valentia Observatory.

Killarney 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). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideKillarney
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m50 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideKillarney
City population1,387,29014,412
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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.