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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Aspen 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 Aspen for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

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. Aspen 6, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Daytona Beach 36: Aspen leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Daytona Beach 30: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Aspen and Daytona Beach are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Daytona Beach 56: Aspen leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Daytona Beach 66: Daytona Beach leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Daytona Beach 18: Aspen leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Daytona Beach 27: Aspen leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Daytona Beach 46: Daytona Beach leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Daytona Beach 30: Aspen leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Daytona Beach 30: Aspen leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Aspen
43match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Aspen in July

27 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
33 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Aspen has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aspen: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Aspen / Woody Creek (5.2 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenDaytona Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,405 m4 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenDaytona Beach
City population7,00472,647
People per km²700440
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-9 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.