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The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Orange Beach or Tel Aviv?

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 Orange Beach for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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. Orange Beach and Tel Aviv are level on 86.
Food & drink. Orange Beach 40, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Orange Beach 7, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Orange Beach 30, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orange Beach 60, Tel Aviv 52: Orange Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Orange Beach 50, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Orange Beach 75, Tel Aviv 68: Orange Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Orange Beach 15, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Orange Beach 25, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Orange Beach 38, Tel Aviv 14: Orange Beach leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orange Beach 32, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orange Beach 32, Tel Aviv 35: Tel Aviv leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orange Beach and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Orange Beach
41match

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

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Orange BeachTel Aviv

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrange BeachTel Aviv
Official language-Hebrew
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation4 m5 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureOrange BeachTel Aviv
City population8,095467,875
People per km²1968,998
Museums within 10 km098
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months7 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.