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A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Miami Beach 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 Miami Beach for

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

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • prices
  • 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. Miami Beach 92, Rehoboth Beach 70: Miami Beach leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Miami Beach 62, Rehoboth Beach 44: Miami Beach leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Miami Beach 52, Rehoboth Beach 14: Miami Beach leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Miami Beach 80, Rehoboth Beach 40: Miami Beach leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami Beach 52, Rehoboth Beach 50: Miami Beach leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Miami Beach 55, Rehoboth Beach 50: Miami Beach leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Miami Beach 60, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Miami Beach 58, Rehoboth Beach 50: Miami Beach leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Miami Beach 55, Rehoboth Beach 45: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Miami Beach 20, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami Beach 55, Rehoboth Beach 28: Miami Beach leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami Beach 48, Rehoboth Beach 32: Miami Beach leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami Beach and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on prices 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.

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °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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Miami BeachRehoboth Beach

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. Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiami BeachRehoboth 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
Elevation1 m5 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 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

MeasureMiami BeachRehoboth Beach
City population82,8901,108
People per km²2,109258
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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. 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.