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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 entrance to the Big Lagoon, El Nido
El NidoThe entrance to the Big Lagoon

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; El Nido by nennnn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or El Nido?

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
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose El Nido for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on El Nido’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, El Nido 92: El Nido leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, El Nido 27: Daytona Beach leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, El Nido 4: Daytona Beach leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, El Nido 30: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, El Nido 87: El Nido leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, El Nido 8: Daytona Beach leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, El Nido 40: Daytona Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, El Nido 22: El Nido leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, El Nido 7: Daytona Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, El Nido 64: El Nido leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, El Nido 7: Daytona Beach leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, El Nido 46: El Nido leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and El Nido.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
Best match
43match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

El Nido
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Daytona Beach in July

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

El Nido in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
368 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachEl Nido

Where the figures come from

El Nido has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). El Nido: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachEl Nido
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m35 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsEl Nido Airport (ENI)4 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachEl Nido
City population72,64751,367
People per km²44056
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.