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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
The beach and pier at uShaka, Durban
DurbanThe beach and pier at uShaka

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Durban by Ossewa, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Durban?

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

  • day trips

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

Choose Durban for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Durban’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 and Durban are level on 80.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Durban 60: Durban leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Durban 38: Durban leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach and Durban are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Durban 68: Durban leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Durban 38: Daytona Beach leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach and Durban are level on 60.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Durban 20: Durban leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Durban 42: Durban leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Durban 72: Durban leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Durban 40: Durban leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach and Durban are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Durban.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips with your weighting.

Durban
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachDurban

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). Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachDurban
Official language-English, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m22 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachDurban
City population72,647595,061
People per km²4402,634
Museums within 10 km61
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 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.