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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Austin or Rehoboth 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 Austin for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth 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. Austin 30, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Rehoboth Beach 44: Austin leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Rehoboth Beach 14: Austin leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Rehoboth Beach 40: Austin leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Rehoboth Beach 50: Austin leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Rehoboth Beach 50: Austin leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Austin and Rehoboth Beach are level on 45.
Affordability. Austin 33, Rehoboth Beach 32: Austin leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Rehoboth Beach 28: Austin leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Rehoboth Beach 32: Austin leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Austin
Best match
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Rehoboth Beach 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. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinRehoboth Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation149 m5 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinRehoboth Beach
City population961,8551,108
People per km²1,217258
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.