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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
Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
GalwayGalway Cathedral from the River Corrib

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

Daytona Beach or Galway?

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 Galway for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Galway’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, Galway 28: Daytona Beach leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Galway 45: Galway leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Galway 33: Galway leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Galway 50: Galway leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Galway 78: Galway leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Galway 56: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Galway 42: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Galway 58: Galway leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Galway 38: Galway leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Galway 28: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Galway 57: Galway leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Galway 28: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Galway.

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 beaches and families with your weighting.

Galway
45match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Galway in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Galway's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Shannon Airport.

Galway 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). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachGalway
Official language-English, Irish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m25 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachGalway
City population72,64783,456
People per km²4401,563
Museums within 10 km64
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.