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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • prices
  • families

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. Antibes and Daytona Beach are level on 80.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Daytona Beach 36: Antibes leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Daytona Beach 30: Antibes leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Antibes and Daytona Beach are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Daytona Beach 56: Antibes leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Daytona Beach 66: Antibes leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Daytona Beach 18: Antibes leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Daytona Beach 27: Antibes leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Daytona Beach 46: Daytona Beach leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Daytona Beach 30: Antibes leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Daytona Beach 30: Antibes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on prices and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °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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AntibesDaytona Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesDaytona Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesDaytona Beach
City population77,63772,647
People per km²2,930440
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months9 months

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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.