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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm 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 Palm Beach for

  • culture and sights
  • wellness
  • shopping

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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. Palm Beach 82, Rehoboth Beach 70: Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Rehoboth Beach 44: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Rehoboth Beach 14: Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Rehoboth Beach 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Rehoboth Beach 50: Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Rehoboth Beach 50: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Rehoboth Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Rehoboth Beach 28: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Rehoboth Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on prices 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.

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 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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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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm 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
Elevation2 m5 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 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

MeasurePalm BeachRehoboth Beach
City population9,2451,108
People per km²322258
Museums within 10 km42
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.