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Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • shopping

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. Gold Coast 92, Rehoboth Beach 70: Gold Coast leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Gold Coast 47, Rehoboth Beach 44: Gold Coast leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Gold Coast 15, Rehoboth Beach 14: Gold Coast leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Gold Coast 55, Rehoboth Beach 40: Gold Coast leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Gold Coast 82, Rehoboth Beach 50: Gold Coast leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Gold Coast 52, Rehoboth Beach 50: Gold Coast leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Gold Coast 89, Rehoboth Beach 70: Gold Coast leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Gold Coast 45, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Gold Coast 40, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Gold Coast 35, Rehoboth Beach 32: Gold Coast leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Gold Coast 30, Rehoboth Beach 28: Gold Coast leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Gold Coast 42, Rehoboth Beach 32: Gold Coast leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Gold Coast and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 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

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

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. Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGold CoastRehoboth Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation12 m5 m
Main airportGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 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

MeasureGold CoastRehoboth Beach
City population607,6651,108
People per km²433258
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.