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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Rehoboth Beach or St. Pete Beach?

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
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, St. Pete Beach 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, St. Pete Beach 18: St. Pete Beach leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, St. Pete Beach 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, St. Pete Beach 57: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, St. Pete Beach 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, St. Pete Beach 20: Rehoboth Beach leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach and St. Pete Beach are level on 32.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, St. Pete Beach 20: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 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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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.

St. Pete 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 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). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSt. Pete Beach
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 m2 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSt. Pete Beach
City population1,1088,879
People per km²258173
Museums within 10 km22
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.