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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 church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or La Romana?

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
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose La Romana for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’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, La Romana 84: La Romana leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, La Romana 38: Adelaide leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, La Romana 24: Adelaide leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, La Romana 30: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, La Romana 62: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, La Romana 52: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, La Romana 56: Adelaide leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, La Romana 24: Adelaide leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, La Romana 28: Adelaide leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, La Romana 50: La Romana leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, La Romana 17: Adelaide leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, La Romana 44: La Romana leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and La Romana.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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). La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideLa Romana
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m10 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideLa Romana
City population1,387,290139,238
People per km²1,071512
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.