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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
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

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

Adelaide or West 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

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on West 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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, West Palm Beach 52: Adelaide leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, West Palm Beach 42: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, West Palm Beach 36: Adelaide leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, West Palm Beach 58: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, West Palm Beach 55: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, West Palm Beach 66: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, West Palm Beach 38: Adelaide leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, West Palm Beach 23: Adelaide leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, West Palm Beach 47: Adelaide leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and West 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 food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

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

West 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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AdelaideWest Palm 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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideWest Palm 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 m6 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

MeasureAdelaideWest Palm Beach
City population1,387,290117,415
People per km²1,071786
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.