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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or Steamboat Springs?

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
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Rehoboth Beach leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, Steamboat Springs 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach and Steamboat Springs are level on 14.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Steamboat Springs 20: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, Steamboat Springs 12: Rehoboth Beach leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Steamboat Springs 62: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Steamboat Springs 46: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Steamboat Springs 22: Rehoboth Beach leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Steamboat Springs 17: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach and Steamboat Springs are level on 28.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and Steamboat Springs.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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.

Steamboat Springs 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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachSteamboat Springs
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m2,052 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachSteamboat Springs
City population1,10813,224
People per km²258503
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.