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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
A galleon on the Motława below the old crane, Gdansk
GdanskA galleon on the Motława below the old crane

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Gdansk by Nikater, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Gdansk?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Gdansk for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Gdansk’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, Gdansk 40: Daytona Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Gdansk 50: Gdansk leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Gdansk 68: Gdansk leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Gdansk 52: Gdansk leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Gdansk 58: Gdansk leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Gdansk 62: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Gdansk 62: Gdansk leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Gdansk 72: Gdansk leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Gdansk 42: Gdansk leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Gdansk 68: Gdansk leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Gdansk 52: Gdansk leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Gdansk 36: Gdansk leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Gdansk.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Gdansk
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Gdansk in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Gdansk 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.

Gdansk's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Elblag.

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). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachGdansk
Official language-Polish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m11 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre72 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachGdansk
City population72,647487,834
People per km²440714
Museums within 10 km634
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.