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The Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort, Galle
GalleThe Dutch Reformed Church in Galle Fort
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Galle by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Galle 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 Galle for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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. Galle 80, Rehoboth Beach 70: Galle leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Galle 50, Rehoboth Beach 44: Galle leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Galle 55, Rehoboth Beach 14: Galle leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Galle 18, Rehoboth Beach 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Galle 66, Rehoboth Beach 50: Galle leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Galle and Rehoboth Beach are level on 50.
Good for families. Galle 42, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Galle 35, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Galle 33, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Galle 72, Rehoboth Beach 32: Galle leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Galle 10, Rehoboth Beach 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Galle 70, Rehoboth Beach 32: Galle leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galle and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Galle
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on families and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Galle in July

28 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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GalleRehoboth Beach

Where the figures come from

Galle has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Galle: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGalleRehoboth 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
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)133 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

MeasureGalleRehoboth Beach
City population93,1181,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.