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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
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

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

Daytona Beach or Ghent?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Ghent for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Daytona Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Ghent 62: Ghent leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Ghent 55: Ghent leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Ghent 35: Daytona Beach leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Ghent 50: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Ghent 50: Ghent leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Ghent 38: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Ghent 60: Ghent leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Ghent 33: Ghent leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Ghent.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Ghent
Best match
54match

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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °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

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachGhent
Official language-French, German, Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m12 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachGhent
City population72,647272,657
People per km²4401,728
Museums within 10 km630
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.