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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fukuoka 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 Fukuoka for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’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. Fukuoka 50, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Rehoboth Beach 44: Fukuoka leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Rehoboth Beach 14: Fukuoka leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Rehoboth Beach 40: Fukuoka leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Rehoboth Beach 50: Fukuoka leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Rehoboth Beach 50: Fukuoka leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Rehoboth Beach 70: Fukuoka leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Rehoboth Beach 50: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Rehoboth Beach 45: Fukuoka leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Rehoboth Beach 32: Fukuoka leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Rehoboth Beach 28: Fukuoka leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Rehoboth Beach 32: Fukuoka leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights 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.

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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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FukuokaRehoboth 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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaRehoboth Beach
Official languageJapanese-
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation8 m5 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaRehoboth Beach
City population1,603,0431,108
People per km²4,715258
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 months

Where else could you go?

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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.