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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
The lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-SheikhThe lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sharm el-Sheikh by Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or Sharm el-Sheikh?

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
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Sharm el-Sheikh for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sharm el-Sheikh’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, Sharm el-Sheikh 87: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, Sharm el-Sheikh 12: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Sharm el-Sheikh 42: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sharm el-Sheikh 82: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Sharm el-Sheikh 62: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Sharm el-Sheikh 22: Rehoboth Beach leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Sharm el-Sheikh 25: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sharm el-Sheikh 74: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, Sharm el-Sheikh 10: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Sharm el-Sheikh 50: Sharm el-Sheikh 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 Sharm el-Sheikh.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Sharm el-Sheikh
44match

Wins on prices 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

Sharm el-Sheikh in July

38 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
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.

Sharm el-Sheikh has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Sharm el-Sheikh: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSharm el-Sheikh
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation5 m1 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsSharm El Sheikh International Airport (SSH)16 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSharm el-Sheikh
City population1,10873,000
People per km²258-
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.