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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or Tamarindo?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Tamarindo for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’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, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, Tamarindo 38: Rehoboth Beach leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, Tamarindo 5: Rehoboth Beach leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Tamarindo 76: Tamarindo leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, Tamarindo 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Tamarindo 55: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Tamarindo 32: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Tamarindo 18: Rehoboth Beach leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Tamarindo 36: Tamarindo leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, Tamarindo 10: Rehoboth Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo 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 Tamarindo.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
Best match
44match

Wins on shopping and day trips with your weighting.

Tamarindo
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Rehoboth BeachTamarindo

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.

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachTamarindo
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m27 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachTamarindo
City population1,1087,132
People per km²25857
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.