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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Guilin 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 Guilin for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • 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. Guilin 8, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Rehoboth Beach 44: Guilin leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Rehoboth Beach 14: Guilin leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Rehoboth Beach 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Rehoboth Beach 50: Guilin leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Rehoboth Beach 50: Guilin leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Guilin 45, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Rehoboth Beach 32: Guilin leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Rehoboth Beach 28: Guilin leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Rehoboth Beach 32: Guilin leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Guilin
44match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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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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. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinRehoboth Beach
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation153 m5 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinRehoboth Beach
City population4,931,1371,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.