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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 white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Krabi?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Krabi 50: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Krabi 20: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Krabi 33: Adelaide leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Krabi 40: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Krabi 55: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Krabi 30: Adelaide leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Krabi 20: Adelaide leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Krabi 12: Adelaide leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Krabi.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °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

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideKrabi
Official languageEnglishThai
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Baht (THB)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number000Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation1 m16 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideKrabi
City population1,387,29030,499
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km130
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.