Aruba vs Sharm el-Sheikh

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

Rixos Premium Seagate beachfront with pale buildings, palm trees, and white umbrellas lining the sandy shore and shallow water.

Sharm el-Sheikh6 resorts · ★ 4.7 average

Aruba and Sharm el-Sheikh, 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 Sharm el-Sheikh
Aruba	Measure	Sharm el-Sheikh
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
11 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	6
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$69–$261/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	0 of 6
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	None to speak of
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	October–May; high summer is very hot but dry, and the sea is at its warmest

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

Sharm el-Sheikh

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Sharm el-Sheikh
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
Sharm el-Sheikh · high °F	72	74	79	86	93	97	99	99	95	89	81	74
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
Sharm el-Sheikh · rain (in)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1

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