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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

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

Austin 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 Austin for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Austin’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. Austin 30, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Daytona Beach 36: Austin leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Daytona Beach 30: Austin leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Daytona Beach 40: Austin leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Daytona Beach 56: Austin leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Daytona Beach 66: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Austin 30, Daytona Beach 18: Austin leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Austin 45, Daytona Beach 27: Austin leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Austin 33, Daytona Beach 46: Daytona Beach leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Daytona Beach 30: Austin leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Daytona Beach 30: Austin leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Austin
Best match
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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.

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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AustinDaytona Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinDaytona Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation149 m4 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinDaytona Beach
City population961,85572,647
People per km²1,217440
Museums within 10 km216
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.