Aruba vs Rhodes

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 Rhodes, 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 Rhodes
Aruba	Measure	Rhodes
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
11 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	9
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$79–$328/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	2 of 9
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	June and September; July–August is hottest, busiest and windiest

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

Rhodes

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Rhodes
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
Rhodes · high °F	59	60	63	69	76	83	87	88	83	76	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
Rhodes · rain (in)	5.9	4.3	3.0	1.0	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	2.7	3.9	6.1

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