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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Bethany Beach or Ushuaia?

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 Bethany Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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. Bethany Beach 72, Ushuaia 3: Bethany Beach leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, Ushuaia 40: Ushuaia leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, Ushuaia 18: Ushuaia leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, Ushuaia 14: Bethany Beach leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, Ushuaia 40: Bethany Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, Ushuaia 45: Ushuaia leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach 28, Ushuaia 22: Bethany Beach leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, Ushuaia 42: Ushuaia leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, Ushuaia 10: Bethany Beach leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, Ushuaia 26: Bethany Beach leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and Ushuaia.

Your match

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

Bethany Beach
Best match
36match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
No seasea
8 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany 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. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachUshuaia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation3 m23 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachUshuaia
City population95482,615
People per km²3183,592
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.