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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alicante or Daytona Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Alicante for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Alicante’s own page.

Choose Daytona Beach for

Daytona Beach does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Daytona Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Alicante 82, Daytona Beach 80: Alicante leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Daytona Beach 36: Alicante leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Daytona Beach 30: Alicante leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Daytona Beach 40: Alicante leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Daytona Beach 56: Alicante leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Daytona Beach 66: Alicante leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Daytona Beach 60: Alicante leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Daytona Beach 18: Alicante leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Daytona Beach 27: Alicante leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Daytona Beach 46: Alicante leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Daytona Beach 30: Alicante leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Daytona Beach 30: Alicante leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Daytona Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlicanteDaytona Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteDaytona Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteDaytona Beach
City population366,22172,647
People per km²1,819440
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months9 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.