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The coastline of the Hotel Zone, Cancun
CancunThe coastline of the Hotel Zone
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Cancun by Tellez Erik, Pexels License; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cancun 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 Cancun for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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. Cancun 98, Rehoboth Beach 70: Cancun leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Cancun and Rehoboth Beach are level on 44.
Culture & sights. Cancun 15, Rehoboth Beach 14: Cancun leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Cancun 70, Rehoboth Beach 40: Cancun leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cancun 66, Rehoboth Beach 50: Cancun leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cancun 65, Rehoboth Beach 50: Cancun leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Cancun 78, Rehoboth Beach 70: Cancun leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Cancun 25, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Cancun 40, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cancun 46, Rehoboth Beach 32: Cancun leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cancun 17, Rehoboth Beach 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cancun 55, Rehoboth Beach 32: Cancun leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cancun and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Cancun
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cancun in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
89 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CancunRehoboth Beach

Where the figures come from

Cancun has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCancunRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m5 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunRehoboth Beach
City population888,7971,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.