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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cebu 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 Cebu for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • 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. Cebu 60, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Daytona Beach 36: Cebu leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Daytona Beach 30: Cebu leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Daytona Beach 40: Cebu leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Daytona Beach 56: Cebu leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Daytona Beach 66: Daytona Beach leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Daytona Beach 18: Cebu leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Daytona Beach 27: Cebu leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Daytona Beach 46: Cebu leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Daytona Beach 30: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Daytona Beach 30: Cebu leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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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CebuDaytona Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuDaytona Beach
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, Taglish-
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation135 m4 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuDaytona Beach
City population965,33272,647
People per km²3,065440
Museums within 10 km56
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.