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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 painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Valparaiso?

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

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Valparaiso 50: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Valparaiso 60: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Valparaiso 33: Adelaide leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Valparaiso 44: Adelaide leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Valparaiso 30: Adelaide leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Valparaiso 38: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Valparaiso 18: Adelaide leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideValparaiso
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number000Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation1 m21 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideValparaiso
City population1,387,290296,655
People per km²1,0716,180
Museums within 10 km1317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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.