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Beira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower, Colombo
ColomboBeira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Colombo by Mohamed Ansaf, Pexels License; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Colombo 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 Colombo for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Colombo 55, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Colombo 66, Rehoboth Beach 44: Colombo leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Colombo 45, Rehoboth Beach 14: Colombo leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Colombo 35, Rehoboth Beach 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Colombo 32, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Colombo and Rehoboth Beach are level on 50.
Good for families. Colombo 35, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Colombo 35, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Colombo and Rehoboth Beach are level on 45.
Affordability. Colombo 78, Rehoboth Beach 32: Colombo leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Colombo 30, Rehoboth Beach 28: Colombo leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Colombo 48, Rehoboth Beach 32: Colombo leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Colombo and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Colombo
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Colombo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
128 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
28 °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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ColomboRehoboth Beach

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. Colombo: 1991-2020 normals, Colombo (3 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureColomboRehoboth Beach
Official languageTamil, Sinhala-
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation1 m5 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)28 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureColomboRehoboth Beach
City population647,5571,108
People per km²17,361258
Museums within 10 km102
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). 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.