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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
The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas

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

Daytona Beach or Guadalajara?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Guadalajara for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Guadalajara’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, Guadalajara 5: Daytona Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Guadalajara 75: Guadalajara leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Guadalajara 62: Guadalajara leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Guadalajara 68: Guadalajara leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Guadalajara 55: Daytona Beach leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach and Guadalajara are level on 66.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Guadalajara 55: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Guadalajara 40: Guadalajara leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Guadalajara 78: Guadalajara leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Guadalajara 35: Guadalajara leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Guadalajara.

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.

Guadalajara
Best match
55match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachGuadalajara

Where the figures come from

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachGuadalajara
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m1,536 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachGuadalajara
City population72,6471,385,621
People per km²4409,556
Museums within 10 km617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.