Shopping in Adelaide centres on Rundle Mall, an attractive paved area noted for its outdoor cafes, trees and modern sculpture. Here you can be entertained by buskers and the passing parade. About 10 km north-west of the city is Port Adelaide. Many of the working port’s 19th century buildings have been restored and its award-winning Maritime Museum is set in seven separate locations. Including the lighthouse, over a concentrated area ideal for walking. other attractions include, Port Dock Station Railway Museum and the Historical Aviation Museum. North Terrace is a boulevard of galleries and museums flowing into serene green botanic gardens. Rundle Street, parallel with it, is lined with cafes, bars and restaurants.

Adelaide is where you are only twenty minutes from the tranquility of the Adelaide Hills or from a terrace on a beach watching the sunlight sparkling on the sea. It's where you can shop at leisure in the city's Mall that was a main street, hunt through designer boutiques, take in the bustle of the Central Market, a product market unlike any other, or party into the small house. Home of a million-plus people, café society, designer shopping and vibrant nightlife. Adelaide is what a city is meant to be. Framed by parklands, hills and sea, it's green, wide and welcoming.

The climate is Mediterranean with warm to hot, dry summers and cool to mild winters. Average summer temperature is around 28C and in winter, 15C. Adelaide has four seasons, with maximum temperatures averaging 28 degrees centigrade between November and March. Minimums can be below 10 degrees between June and September. Rainfall is heaviest from May to September.