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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Rehoboth Beach or Tulum?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Tulum for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tulum’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, Tulum 88: Tulum leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, Tulum 52: Tulum leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, Tulum 30: Tulum leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Tulum 60: Tulum leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Tulum 76: Tulum leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, Tulum 68: Tulum leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Tulum 60: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Tulum 25: Rehoboth Beach leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Tulum 35: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Tulum 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, Tulum 15: Rehoboth Beach leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Tulum 85: Tulum leads by 53 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and Tulum.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Tulum
Best match
52match

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

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 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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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.

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

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachTulum
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911911
Elevation5 m5 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachTulum
City population1,10833,374
People per km²258-
Museums within 10 km20
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.