Aruba vs Fiji

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

Wooden bungalow with thatched-roof structures nestled in tropical vegetation overlooking calm blue ocean waters.

Aruba and Fiji, 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 Fiji
Aruba	Measure	Fiji
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	–
11	Resorts in our catalog	14 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$143–$528/night pp	Nightly rates	$74–$1327/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	7 of 14
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	November–April, wettest January–March
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	May–October: dry, mid-80s, and aligned with northern-summer holidays
Dutch & Papiamento (English universal)	Language	English official; the easiest South Pacific for anglophones
Aruban florin; USD universally accepted	Currency	Fijian dollar
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~11h nonstop from Los Angeles

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

Fiji

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Fiji
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
Fiji · high °F	88	88	87	85	83	81	80	80	82	84	86	87
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
Fiji · rain (in)	11.9	11.3	12.9	7.1	3.9	2.4	1.9	2.4	3.2	4.2	5.5	7.5

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