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The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Nairobi 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 Nairobi for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

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. Nairobi 4, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Nairobi 48, Rehoboth Beach 44: Nairobi leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Nairobi 35, Rehoboth Beach 14: Nairobi leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Nairobi 58, Rehoboth Beach 40: Nairobi leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nairobi 84, Rehoboth Beach 50: Nairobi leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Nairobi 28, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Nairobi 55, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Nairobi 20, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Nairobi and Rehoboth Beach are level on 45.
Affordability. Nairobi 60, Rehoboth Beach 32: Nairobi leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nairobi 35, Rehoboth Beach 28: Nairobi leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nairobi 25, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nairobi and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Nairobi
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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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NairobiRehoboth 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. Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNairobiRehoboth Beach
Official languageEnglish, Swahili-
CurrencyKenyan Shilling (KES)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999911
Elevation1,661 m5 m
Main airportJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNairobiRehoboth Beach
City population5,545,0001,108
People per km²7,967258
Museums within 10 km42
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.