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The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Brisbane or Petra?

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 Brisbane for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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. Brisbane 55, Petra 5: Brisbane leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Brisbane 60, Petra 22: Brisbane leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Brisbane 42, Petra 85: Petra leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Brisbane 55, Petra 5: Brisbane leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brisbane 74, Petra 78: Petra leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Brisbane 50, Petra 30: Brisbane leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Brisbane 78, Petra 25: Brisbane leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Brisbane 62, Petra 25: Brisbane leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Brisbane 45, Petra 18: Brisbane leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Brisbane 33, Petra 45: Petra leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brisbane 55, Petra 10: Brisbane leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brisbane 40, Petra 28: Brisbane leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brisbane and Petra.

Your match

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

Brisbane
Best match
54match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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. Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrisbanePetra
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+3
Emergency number000911
Elevation0 m850 m
Main airportBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBrisbanePetra
City population2,706,966-
People per km²171-
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.