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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
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Daytona Beach or Hobart?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Hobart for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Daytona Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Hobart 30: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Hobart 60: Daytona Beach leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Hobart 56: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Hobart 38: Hobart leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Hobart 35: Daytona Beach leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Hobart 40: Hobart leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Hobart.

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.

Hobart
Best match
48match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachHobart

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). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachHobart
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation4 m54 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachHobart
City population72,647197,451
People per km²440116
Museums within 10 km68
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.