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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 beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Adelaide or Nuevo Vallarta?

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
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Adelaide leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Adelaide leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Adelaide leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Adelaide leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Nuevo Vallarta.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideNuevo Vallarta
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 m3 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideNuevo Vallarta
City population1,387,2901,301
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.