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Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Perth 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 Perth for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • shopping

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. Perth 86, Rehoboth Beach 70: Perth leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Perth 58, Rehoboth Beach 44: Perth leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Perth 42, Rehoboth Beach 14: Perth leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Perth 42, Rehoboth Beach 40: Perth leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Perth 72, Rehoboth Beach 50: Perth leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Perth 48, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Perth 74, Rehoboth Beach 70: Perth leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Perth 55, Rehoboth Beach 50: Perth leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Perth 44, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Perth 28, Rehoboth Beach 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Perth 50, Rehoboth Beach 28: Perth leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Perth 38, Rehoboth Beach 32: Perth leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Perth and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Perth
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 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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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. Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePerthRehoboth Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation2 m5 m
Main airportPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 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

MeasurePerthRehoboth Beach
City population2,141,8341,108
People per km²334258
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.