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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
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Palm Beach?

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

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Palm Beach 47: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Palm Beach 45: Adelaide leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Palm Beach 32: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Palm Beach 58: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Palm Beach 55: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Palm Beach 62: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Palm Beach 32: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Palm Beach 12: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Palm Beach 45: Adelaide leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on shopping and beaches 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaidePalm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaidePalm Beach
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m2 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaidePalm Beach
City population1,387,2909,245
People per km²1,071322
Museums within 10 km134
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.