Aruba vs Belek

Turquoise pool with loungers and fire pits on sand deck, surrounded by curved resort building with white cabanas and green-roofed central structure.

Rectangular pool with blue tile in manicured lawn facing modern beige villa with lounge chairs, umbrellas, and woven hanging chair at Gloria Serenity Resort.

Aruba and Belek, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Aruba compared with Belek
Aruba	Measure	Belek
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
11 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	8
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$1–$734/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	0 of 8
Outside the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	November–February
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Aruba

Belek

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Belek
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Belek · high °F	59	60	64	70	78	86	93	93	88	80	70	62
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
Belek · rain (in)	8.6	5.7	3.5	1.6	1.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.5	3.3	6.3	10.4

Approximate climate normals for Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Antalya: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.