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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • 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. Cork 25, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Daytona Beach 36: Cork leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Daytona Beach 30: Cork leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Cork and Daytona Beach are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Daytona Beach 56: Cork leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Daytona Beach 66: Cork leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Daytona Beach 18: Cork leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Daytona Beach 27: Cork leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Daytona Beach 46: Daytona Beach leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Daytona Beach 30: Cork leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Daytona Beach 30: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cork
45match

Wins on getting around 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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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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CorkDaytona Beach

Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkDaytona Beach
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkDaytona Beach
City population222,33372,647
People per km²5,961440
Museums within 10 km56
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone9 months

Where else could you go?

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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.