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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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. Medellin 5, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Rehoboth Beach 44: Medellin leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Rehoboth Beach 14: Medellin leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Rehoboth Beach 40: Medellin leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Rehoboth Beach 50: Medellin leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Rehoboth Beach 50: Medellin leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Rehoboth Beach 50: Medellin leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin and Rehoboth Beach are level on 45.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Rehoboth Beach 32: Medellin leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Rehoboth Beach 28: Medellin leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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Medellin
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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.

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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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MedellinRehoboth Beach

Where the figures come from

Medellin 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. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation1,405 m5 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinRehoboth Beach
City population2,529,4031,108
People per km²6,644258
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.