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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 towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Panama 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

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Panama City for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Panama 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, Panama City 44: Adelaide leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Panama City 57: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Panama City 74: Panama City leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Panama City 50: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Panama City 45: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Panama City 40: Adelaide leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Panama City 52: Panama City leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Panama City 55: Panama City leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Panama City 34: Adelaide leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Panama City 22: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Panama City.

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 families with your weighting.

Panama City
50match

Wins on nightlife and prices 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

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Panama City has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaidePanama City
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Balboa (PAB)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m20 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaidePanama City
City population1,387,2901,540,000
People per km²1,0715,600
Museums within 10 km1310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Panama City somewhere new.

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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.