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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 white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Daytona Beach or Essaouira?

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
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Essaouira for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’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, Essaouira 47: Daytona Beach leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Essaouira 44: Essaouira leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Essaouira 48: Essaouira leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Essaouira 14: Daytona Beach leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Essaouira 57: Essaouira leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Essaouira 17: Daytona Beach leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Essaouira 42: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Essaouira 58: Essaouira leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Essaouira 44: Essaouira leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Essaouira 74: Essaouira leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Essaouira 28: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Essaouira 66: Essaouira leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Essaouira.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

Wins on getting around and wellness 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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachEssaouira

Where the figures come from

Essaouira 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). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachEssaouira
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation4 m11 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachEssaouira
City population72,64782,962
People per km²44016,592
Museums within 10 km62
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 monthsNone

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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.