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The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Deer Valley?

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 Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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. Daytona Beach 80, Deer Valley 10: Daytona Beach leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Deer Valley 38: Deer Valley leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Deer Valley 15: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Deer Valley 25: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Deer Valley 38: Daytona Beach leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach and Deer Valley are level on 60.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Deer Valley 50: Deer Valley leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Deer Valley 25: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Deer Valley 4: Daytona Beach leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach and Deer Valley are level on 30.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Deer Valley 52: Deer Valley leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Daytona Beach in July

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachDeer Valley

Where the figures come from

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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. Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachDeer Valley
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m2,474 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachDeer Valley
City population72,647-
People per km²440-
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.