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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
The Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose, San Jose, Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa RicaThe Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Jose, Costa Rica by Bernard Gagnon, CC0.

Rehoboth Beach or San Jose, Costa Rica?

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
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose San Jose, Costa Rica for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose, Costa Rica’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 Jose, Costa Rica 12: Rehoboth Beach leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, San Jose, Costa Rica 42: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, San Jose, Costa Rica 38: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach and San Jose, Costa Rica are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Jose, Costa Rica 78: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Jose, Costa Rica 52: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, San Jose, Costa Rica 44: Rehoboth Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Jose, Costa Rica 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, San Jose, Costa Rica 36: Rehoboth Beach leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, San Jose, Costa Rica 54: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, San Jose, Costa Rica 38: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, San Jose, Costa Rica 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and San Jose, Costa Rica.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

San Jose, Costa Rica
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights 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 Jose, Costa Rica in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
173 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Rehoboth BeachSan Jose, Costa Rica

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.

San Jose, Costa Rica's station stands 241 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

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 Jose, Costa Rica: 1991-2020 normals, Juan Santamaria (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Jose, Costa Rica
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m1,161 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsJuan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)16 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Jose, Costa Rica
City population1,108335,007
People per km²2587,511
Museums within 10 km29
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.