United States / Delaware
Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth Beach is a coastal resort area in Delaware, United States. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 2.9 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 24.0 °C in August, its warmest month, and 3.1 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in July–September.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 185Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 4Public toilets
- –Showers
- 3Drinking water
- 31Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 51Hotels & guesthouses
- 10Grocery shops
- 2Water-sports spots
- 2Playgrounds & water parks
- 2Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 2Pharmacies & clinics
- 2Cash machines
- 1Bike rental
- 1Historic sites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 148 restaurants, 16 cafés, 16 bars and 5 fast-food outlets. Accommodation: 51 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Month by month
October at Rehoboth Beach
Beach-day index 4.0/10 · United States median 4.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 4.3 °C | 3.1 °C | 5.1 °C | 9.0 °C | 14.0 °C | 19.6 °C | 23.1 °C | 24.0 °C | 22.6 °C | 18.2 °C | 12.4 °C | 7.7 °C |
| High °C | 5° | 5° | 8° | 14° | 19° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 24° | 19° | 13° | 8° |
| Low °C | 0° | 0° | 3° | 8° | 14° | 19° | 23° | 23° | 20° | 14° | 8° | 3° |
| Rain mm | 76 | 79 | 95 | 91 | 89 | 103 | 111 | 115 | 95 | 112 | 89 | 108 |
| Cloud % | 62 | 61 | 60 | 56 | 58 | 54 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 53 | 62 |
| Wind m/s | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 6.4 |
| Daylight h | 9.7 | 10.7 | 11.9 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 14.9 | 14.6 | 13.7 | 12.5 | 11.3 | 10.1 | 9.5 |
| Record high/low | 16°/-12° | 16°/-13° | 21°/-8° | 27°/0° | 28°/5° | 31°/11° | 34°/17° | 32°/17° | 31°/12° | 29°/5° | 21°/-2° | 19°/-8° |
| Beach index | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 7.0 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in July–August; July scores 8.6/10 with highs of 27 °C, sea at 23.1 °C and 111 mm of rain.
In July that is 0.7 points above the median of the 2,466 beaches in United States covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 1.5 °C warmer than the United States median for August (22.5 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 13.6 °C, cooler than 79% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
August is the wettest month (115 mm) and January the driest (76 mm); the yearly total is about 1,160 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.5 hours in December to 14.9 hours in June; in mid-July the sun rises at 05:46 and sets at 20:25 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces east (85°). Open water fills about 11% of the horizon close by, which makes it a sheltered cove or bay.
At no time of year does the sun set over the sea here: sunset bearings run from 240° to 301°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in March–April and August–October.
The opposite shore is only about 500 m away to the east, which keeps the water sheltered from big waves.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 7 m deep and 12 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 13 m above sea level 500 m inland and 12 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 51% tree cover, 41% built-up land and 4% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 12% of that circle.
- Tree 51%
- Built 41%
- Grass 4%
- Bare 4%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean City Municipal Airport Ocean City | OCE | 45.3 km | south |
| Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport Salisbury | SBY | 55.9 km | south-west |
| Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base Dover | DOV | 56.6 km | north-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 2 bus stops within 1.5 km, ferry terminal Water Taxi & Tours (810 m) and 31 mapped car parks within 1 km.
3 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 8.2K residents); within 30 km there are 11 (about 32K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Anna Hazzard Museum museum 140 m S
- Sea Dragon attraction 660 m E
- Funland attraction 670 m E
- Rehoboth Beach Haunted Mansion attraction 670 m E
- Rehoboth Beach Museum museum 770 m W
Historic sites
- Sugar Shack, Rehoboth castle 290 m W
Lighthouses & piers
- Children's Fishing Pier pier 520 m NE
- Grove Park Canal Dock pier 810 m W
Diving & boat hire
- Atlantic Cycles 510 m E
Map
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 18.0 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r12897593; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2B_18SVH_20241021_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 165K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.