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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
La Concha beach and Monte Urgull, San Sebastian
San SebastianLa Concha beach and Monte Urgull

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Sebastian by Guérin Nicolas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or San Sebastian?

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

  • shopping
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose San Sebastian for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on San Sebastian’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 Sebastian 68: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, San Sebastian 88: San Sebastian leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, San Sebastian 52: San Sebastian leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, San Sebastian 44: San Sebastian leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Sebastian 72: San Sebastian leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Sebastian 80: San Sebastian leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, San Sebastian 66: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, San Sebastian 80: San Sebastian leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, San Sebastian 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach and San Sebastian are level on 32.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, San Sebastian 45: San Sebastian leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, San Sebastian 50: San Sebastian leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and San Sebastian.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on shopping and families with your weighting.

San Sebastian
Best match
60match

Wins on food and drink 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
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

San Sebastian in July

22 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Rehoboth BeachSan Sebastian

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 Sebastian's station stands 252 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer 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 Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Sebastian
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m6 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSan Sebastian
City population1,108189,866
People per km²2583,118
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months2 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.