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The beach and pier at uShaka, Durban
DurbanThe beach and pier at uShaka
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Durban by Ossewa, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Durban 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 Durban for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • families

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. Durban 80, Rehoboth Beach 70: Durban leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Rehoboth Beach 44: Durban leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Rehoboth Beach 14: Durban leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Durban and Rehoboth Beach are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Rehoboth Beach 50: Durban leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Rehoboth Beach 32: Durban leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Rehoboth Beach 28: Durban leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Durban
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around 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.

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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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DurbanRehoboth 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. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanRehoboth Beach
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language-
CurrencyRand (ZAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m5 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanRehoboth Beach
City population595,0611,108
People per km²2,634258
Museums within 10 km12
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). 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.