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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or Sedona?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Rehoboth Beach leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, Sedona 33: Rehoboth Beach leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, Sedona 20: Sedona leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Sedona 8: Rehoboth Beach leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Sedona 42: Rehoboth Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sedona 22: Rehoboth Beach leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Sedona 34: Rehoboth Beach leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sedona 18: Rehoboth Beach leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, Sedona 13: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and Sedona.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSedona
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m1,319 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSedona
City population1,1089,684
People per km²258195
Museums within 10 km20
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.