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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 Elbphilharmonie from the water, Hamburg
HamburgThe Elbphilharmonie from the water

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Hamburg by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Daytona Beach or Hamburg?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Hamburg for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Hamburg’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, Hamburg 28: Daytona Beach leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Hamburg 55: Hamburg leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Hamburg 62: Hamburg leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Hamburg 76: Hamburg leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Hamburg 52: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Hamburg 70: Hamburg leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Hamburg 74: Hamburg leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Hamburg 65: Hamburg leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Hamburg 38: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Hamburg 80: Hamburg leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Hamburg 44: Hamburg leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Hamburg.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Hamburg
Best match
60match

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

Hamburg in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachHamburg

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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachHamburg
Official language-German
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m6 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachHamburg
City population72,6471,869,473
People per km²4402,476
Museums within 10 km677
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.