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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Belfast 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 Belfast for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Belfast 20, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Daytona Beach 36: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Daytona Beach 30: Belfast leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Daytona Beach 40: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Daytona Beach 56: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Belfast and Daytona Beach are level on 66.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Daytona Beach 18: Belfast leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Daytona Beach 27: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Daytona Beach 46: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Daytona Beach 30: Belfast leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Daytona Beach 30: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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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BelfastDaytona Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastDaytona Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastDaytona Beach
City population345,00672,647
People per km²3,000440
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone9 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). 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. 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.