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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
Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0.

Daytona Beach or Florianopolis?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Florianopolis for

  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Florianopolis’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, Florianopolis 85: Florianopolis leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Florianopolis 58: Florianopolis leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Florianopolis 33: Florianopolis leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Florianopolis 78: Florianopolis leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Florianopolis 50: Daytona Beach leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach and Florianopolis are level on 60.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Florianopolis 28: Florianopolis leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Florianopolis 33: Florianopolis leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Florianopolis 28: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Florianopolis 45: Florianopolis leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Florianopolis.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and nature and the outdoors 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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachFlorianopolis

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). Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachFlorianopolis
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation4 m3 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachFlorianopolis
City population72,647587,486
People per km²440870
Museums within 10 km611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months7 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.