Aruba vs Rodney Bay

Clear blue lap pool with lane divider, wooden pergola, and lush tropical vegetation surrounding East Winds resort under bright sky.

Aruba and Rodney Bay, 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.

Aruba guide · Rodney Bay guide · How we score

By the numbers

Aruba compared with Rodney Bay
Aruba	Measure	Rodney Bay
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	7
★ 4.4 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$89–$480/night pp (better)
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	1 of 7
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	June–November, heaviest September–October
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	December–April

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

Rodney Bay

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Rodney Bay
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
Rodney Bay · high °F	84	84	85	87	88	88	88	88	88	87	86	84
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
Rodney Bay · rain (in)	3.7	2.6	2.4	3.4	4.4	7.5	8.1	8.9	8.4	9.2	7.7	5.2

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