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Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Portland 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 Portland for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

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. Portland 20, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Portland 68, Rehoboth Beach 44: Portland leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Portland 38, Rehoboth Beach 14: Portland leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Portland 52, Rehoboth Beach 40: Portland leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Portland 84, Rehoboth Beach 50: Portland leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Portland 58, Rehoboth Beach 50: Portland leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Portland 55, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Portland 62, Rehoboth Beach 50: Portland leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Portland 52, Rehoboth Beach 45: Portland leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Portland 38, Rehoboth Beach 32: Portland leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Portland 55, Rehoboth Beach 28: Portland leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Portland 42, Rehoboth Beach 32: Portland leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Portland and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Portland
Best match
52match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts 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.

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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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PortlandRehoboth 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. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortlandRehoboth Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation152 m5 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandRehoboth Beach
City population652,5031,108
People per km²1,736258
Museums within 10 km172
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.