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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
Ca' d'Zan, the Ringling mansion on Sarasota Bay, Sarasota
SarasotaCa' d'Zan, the Ringling mansion on Sarasota Bay

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sarasota by Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or Sarasota?

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

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Sarasota for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Sarasota’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, Sarasota 86: Sarasota leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach and Sarasota are level on 44.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, Sarasota 45: Sarasota leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Sarasota 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sarasota 55: Sarasota leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach and Sarasota are level on 50.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Sarasota 68: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sarasota 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Sarasota 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sarasota 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, Sarasota 58: Sarasota leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sarasota 45: Sarasota leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and Sarasota.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Sarasota
Best match
48match

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
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Sarasota in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
195 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Rehoboth BeachSarasota

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.

Sarasota 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.

Sarasota's sunshine is measured 70 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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). Sarasota: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sarasota / Ballentine Manor (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSarasota
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m7 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsSarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ)7 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSarasota
City population1,10854,842
People per km²258840
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months8 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.