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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
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Montego Bay?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Montego Bay 50: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Montego Bay 28: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide and Montego Bay are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Montego Bay 65: Adelaide leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Montego Bay 50: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Montego Bay 48: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Montego Bay 20: Adelaide leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Montego Bay 25: Adelaide leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Montego Bay 38: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Montego Bay 32: Adelaide leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches 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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideMontego Bay

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideMontego Bay
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number000Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation1 m19 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideMontego Bay
City population1,387,290123,994
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

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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.