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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 Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi, Kochi
KochiThe Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Kochi by Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Kochi?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Kochi for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Kochi’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, Kochi 38: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Kochi 66: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Kochi 62: Kochi leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Kochi 18: Adelaide leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Kochi 55: Adelaide leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Kochi 52: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Kochi 40: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Kochi 44: Adelaide leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Kochi 45: Kochi leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Kochi 88: Kochi leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Kochi 40: Adelaide leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Kochi 70: Kochi leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Kochi.

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 families with your weighting.

Kochi
52match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Kochi in July

27 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
439 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °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

Kochi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Kochi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideKochi
Official languageEnglishHindi, English
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number000108 or 112
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsCochin International Airport (COK)24 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideKochi
City population1,387,290677,381
People per km²1,0717,138
Museums within 10 km134
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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 Kochi 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.