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The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cologne 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 Cologne for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches

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. Cologne 14, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Cologne 52, Rehoboth Beach 44: Cologne leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cologne 67, Rehoboth Beach 14: Cologne leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Cologne 66, Rehoboth Beach 40: Cologne leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cologne 56, Rehoboth Beach 50: Cologne leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Cologne 80, Rehoboth Beach 50: Cologne leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Cologne and Rehoboth Beach are level on 70.
Getting around. Cologne 74, Rehoboth Beach 50: Cologne leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Cologne 57, Rehoboth Beach 45: Cologne leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cologne 46, Rehoboth Beach 32: Cologne leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cologne 68, Rehoboth Beach 28: Cologne leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cologne 50, Rehoboth Beach 32: Cologne leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cologne and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Cologne
Best match
58match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCologneRehoboth Beach
Official languageGerman-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation59 m5 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 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

MeasureCologneRehoboth Beach
City population1,025,5231,108
People per km²2,532258
Museums within 10 km402
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.