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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • families
  • day trips
  • prices

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. Key West 60, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Rehoboth Beach 44: Key West leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Rehoboth Beach 14: Key West leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Rehoboth Beach 40: Key West leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Rehoboth Beach 50: Key West leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Rehoboth Beach 50: Key West leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Rehoboth Beach 28: Key West leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Rehoboth Beach 32: Key West leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West 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

Key West
44match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on families 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.

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
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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Key WestRehoboth Beach

Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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.

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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestRehoboth Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m5 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 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

MeasureKey WestRehoboth Beach
City population26,4441,108
People per km²1,407258
Museums within 10 km72
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.