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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 Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Mexico City?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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, Mexico City 5: Adelaide leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Mexico City 50: Adelaide leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Mexico City 58: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Mexico City 50: Adelaide leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Mexico City 40: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Adelaide
56match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideMexico City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideMexico City
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m2,240 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideMexico City
City population1,387,2909,209,944
People per km²1,0716,202
Museums within 10 km13108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.