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The yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo, Merida
MeridaThe yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Merida by Mariposa2723, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Merida 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 Merida for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

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. Merida 50, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Merida 72, Rehoboth Beach 44: Merida leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Merida 64, Rehoboth Beach 14: Merida leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Merida 42, Rehoboth Beach 40: Merida leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Merida 48, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Merida 80, Rehoboth Beach 50: Merida leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Merida 50, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Merida 45, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Merida 50, Rehoboth Beach 45: Merida leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Merida 75, Rehoboth Beach 32: Merida leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Merida 52, Rehoboth Beach 28: Merida leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Merida 40, Rehoboth Beach 32: Merida leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Merida and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Merida
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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.

Merida in July

35 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
148 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
13 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. Merida: 1991-2020 normals, Merida / lic Manuel Crecencio (5.1 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMeridaRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m5 m
Main airportManuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (MID)5 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMeridaRehoboth Beach
City population892,3631,108
People per km²1,010258
Museums within 10 km52
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.