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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Clearwater 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 Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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. Clearwater 90, Rehoboth Beach 70: Clearwater leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Rehoboth Beach 44: Rehoboth Beach leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Rehoboth Beach 14: Clearwater leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Rehoboth Beach 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Rehoboth Beach 50: Clearwater leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Rehoboth Beach 50: Clearwater leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Rehoboth Beach 70: Clearwater leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Rehoboth Beach 32: Clearwater leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Rehoboth Beach 28: Clearwater leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Rehoboth Beach 32: Clearwater leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterRehoboth Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m5 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterRehoboth Beach
City population117,2921,108
People per km²1,154258
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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.