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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Rehoboth Beach or San Francisco?

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 Rehoboth Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose San Francisco for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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. Rehoboth Beach 70, San Francisco 25: Rehoboth Beach leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, San Francisco 66: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, San Francisco 14: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, San Francisco 42: San Francisco leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and San Francisco.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 °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. Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Francisco
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m16 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Francisco
City population1,108873,965
People per km²2581,455
Museums within 10 km251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.