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Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Penang 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 Penang for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Penang’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. Penang 44, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Penang 86, Rehoboth Beach 44: Penang leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Penang 70, Rehoboth Beach 14: Penang leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Penang and Rehoboth Beach are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Penang 55, Rehoboth Beach 50: Penang leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Penang 42, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Penang 52, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Penang 40, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Penang 42, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Penang 78, Rehoboth Beach 32: Penang leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Penang 30, Rehoboth Beach 28: Penang leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Penang 42, Rehoboth Beach 32: Penang leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Penang and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Penang
Best match
52match

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.

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
12 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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PenangRehoboth 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. Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePenangRehoboth Beach
Official languageMalay-
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation4 m5 m
Main airportPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePenangRehoboth Beach
City population794,3131,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km92
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.