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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • culture and sights
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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 Miguel de Allende 4: Rehoboth Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, San Miguel de Allende 38: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Miguel de Allende 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, San Miguel de Allende 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Miguel de Allende 48: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness 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
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Rehoboth BeachSan Miguel de Allende

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 Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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 Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Miguel de Allende
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m1,900 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Miguel de Allende
City population1,10869,811
People per km²258-
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.