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The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Madrid 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 Madrid for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

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. Madrid 5, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Madrid 80, Rehoboth Beach 44: Madrid leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Madrid 86, Rehoboth Beach 14: Madrid leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Madrid 85, Rehoboth Beach 40: Madrid leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Madrid 60, Rehoboth Beach 50: Madrid leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Madrid 89, Rehoboth Beach 50: Madrid leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Madrid 68, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Madrid 84, Rehoboth Beach 50: Madrid leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Madrid 75, Rehoboth Beach 45: Madrid leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Madrid 50, Rehoboth Beach 32: Madrid leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Madrid 77, Rehoboth Beach 28: Madrid leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Madrid 36, Rehoboth Beach 32: Madrid leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Madrid and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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.

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMadridRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m5 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridRehoboth Beach
City population3,506,7301,108
People per km²5,801258
Museums within 10 km882
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.