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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 Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Los Angeles?

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

  • getting around
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Adelaide and Los Angeles are level on 60.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Los Angeles 25: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Los Angeles 24: Adelaide leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Adelaide
56match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping and nightlife 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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideLos Angeles

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideLos Angeles
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m106 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideLos Angeles
City population1,387,2903,898,747
People per km²1,0712,994
Museums within 10 km1339
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.