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The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Rehoboth Beach or Wellington?

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
  • families

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

Choose Wellington for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Rehoboth Beach leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Rehoboth Beach 44, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Rehoboth Beach 14, Wellington 44: Wellington leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Rehoboth Beach 40, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Rehoboth Beach 50, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Rehoboth Beach 50, Wellington 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Rehoboth Beach 70, Wellington 62: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Rehoboth Beach 50, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Rehoboth Beach 45, Wellington 42: Rehoboth Beach leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Rehoboth Beach 32, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Rehoboth Beach 28, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Rehoboth Beach 32, Wellington 30: Rehoboth Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rehoboth Beach and Wellington.

Your match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Wellington
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Rehoboth BeachWellington

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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRehoboth BeachWellington
Official language-English, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number911111
Elevation5 m0 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRehoboth BeachWellington
City population1,108216,200
People per km²258487
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.