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Yellow colonial houses in the walled city, Cartagena
CartagenaYellow colonial houses in the walled city
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Cartagena by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cartagena 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 Cartagena for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • families
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Cartagena and Rehoboth Beach are level on 70.
Food & drink. Cartagena 62, Rehoboth Beach 44: Cartagena leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cartagena 68, Rehoboth Beach 14: Cartagena leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Cartagena 70, Rehoboth Beach 40: Cartagena leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cartagena 46, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cartagena 33, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Cartagena 40, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cartagena 54, Rehoboth Beach 50: Cartagena leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cartagena 48, Rehoboth Beach 45: Cartagena leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Cartagena 60, Rehoboth Beach 32: Cartagena leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cartagena 40, Rehoboth Beach 28: Cartagena leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cartagena 40, Rehoboth Beach 32: Cartagena leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cartagena and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Cartagena
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on families and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cartagena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
124 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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. Cartagena: 1991-2020 normals, Cartagena / Rafael Nunez (3.1 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCartagenaRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation2 m5 m
Main airportRafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)2 km from centre26 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCartagenaRehoboth Beach
City population914,5521,108
People per km²1,599258
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.