melburne is better for shopping because it is a bigger city than Adelaide and Adelaide is more rural
If it is 3pm in Adelaide, it is 3:30pm in Melbourne.
Good traffic, about 7 hours.
Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, is northwest of Melbourne.
If you do what we did, leave Adelaide early, we always stop in Horsham, stretch our legs, grab a late brekky at maccas then make the treck into melbourne.
9:00 Adelaide is half an hour Behind Melbourne
Adelaide is closer.
There are several major routes from Melbourne to Adelaide, but the most logical is the Princes Highway.
From Adelaide to Melbourne by air is a distance of 655 km, or 407 miles.
There are 406.61 air miles between Adelaide and Melbourne and there are 451.31 by road.
Melbourne is the southernmost capital out of Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne. Hobart is Australia's southernmost capital.
Adelaide is half an hour behind Melbourne time, so it would be 1:30.
The flight is just over an hour long in actual time (remember that Melbourne is half an hour ahead of Adelaide's time.)