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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or Sapporo?

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

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, Sapporo 40: Sapporo leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sapporo 64: Sapporo leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, Sapporo 44: Sapporo leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and food and drink 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Rehoboth BeachSapporo

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). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSapporo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation5 m5 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSapporo
City population1,1081,959,313
People per km²2581,747
Museums within 10 km233
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months1 month

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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.