Explore Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Delaware or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Rehoboth Beach.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Rehoboth Beach |
| State | Delaware (DE) |
| County | Sussex County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.720945 |
| Longitude | -75.076014 |
| Population | 1,108 |
| Density | 364.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 19971 |
| Area Code | 302 |
| County Seat | Georgetown |
| School District | Cape Henlopen School District |
Rehoboth Beach emerges from the flat coastal margin where the rhythmic pulse of the Atlantic tide meets the shifting grains of a wide, sandy shore. It lies 23.1 miles southeast of Milford, DE (from Milford, DE: bearing 125°T), and is situated 5.0 miles southeast of Lewes. The horizon here is defined by the expansive quality of the sky, which bleeds a soft, bruised violet into the water at dusk, while the immediate landscape remains low and level, anchored by the still, dark waters of Lake Gerar. Beyond the immediate shoreline, the terrain stretches toward the brackish expanse of Rehoboth Bay and the quiet, grass-fringed periphery of Thompson Island, creating a horizon that feels infinite and unburdened by the jagged silhouette of distant high ground, save for the faint, atmospheric suggestion of Pine Ridge far to the west.
Rehoboth Beach serves as a vibrant confluence of seasonal industry and historical endurance, anchored by the enduring wooden planks of the Rehoboth Beach and Boardwalk that define the edge of the human experience against the sea. The economic life of the locale has long been tethered to the movement of water and travelers, with the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal acting as a silent, narrow artery for transit through the surrounding lowlands. Nearby, the geography shifts toward the subtle, sediment-heavy depression of Flat Sands, a reminder of the soft, yielding nature of the earth in this region. Life here moves in concert with the seasonal migration of visitors, who gather to find a strange, flickering clarity in the salt-heavy air, far removed from the denser, inland textures of the world beyond the reach of the tide.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Coordinates: 38.720945, -75.076014. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Rehoboth Beach includes the ZIP code (19971), telephone area code (302), county seat of Sussex County (Georgetown), and school district assignment (Cape Henlopen School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |