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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 pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Kyoto?

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
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’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, Kyoto 15: Adelaide leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Kyoto 35: Adelaide leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Kyoto 68: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Kyoto 50: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Kyoto 60: Adelaide leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Adelaide
56match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideKyoto
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number000Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1 m51 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideKyoto
City population1,387,2901,463,723
People per km²1,0711,768
Museums within 10 km1377
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Kyoto 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.