Aruba vs Greece

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

Curved turquoise pool with metal railing overlooking white resort buildings, beach loungers, and Mediterranean Sea under clear blue sky.

Aruba and Greece, 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 Greece
Aruba	Measure	Greece
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
11	Resorts in our catalog	37 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$45–$2113/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	7 of 37
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	Late May–June and September–early October (July–August is hottest and busiest)
Dutch & Papiamento (English universal)	Language	Greek (English widely spoken)
Aruban florin; USD universally accepted	Currency	Euro
120V, Type A/B plugs (same as the US)	Power	230V, European Type C/F plugs
On the right	Driving	On the right
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~9–11h from the US, often via a hub

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

Greece

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Greece
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
Greece · high °F	60	61	64	69	76	83	85	85	81	74	68	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
Greece · rain (in)	3.5	3.0	2.2	1.0	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.8	2.7	2.3	3.0

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