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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
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Daytona Beach or Florence?

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
  • families
  • prices

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

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Daytona Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Florence 74: Florence leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Florence 94: Florence leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Florence 42: Florence leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Florence 58: Florence leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Florence 98: Florence leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Florence 45: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Florence 78: Florence leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Florence 72: Florence leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Florence 35: Daytona Beach leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Florence 58: Florence leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Florence 42: Florence leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Florence.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachFlorence
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m50 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachFlorence
City population72,647360,930
People per km²4403,528
Museums within 10 km6141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.