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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 Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Interlaken?

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 Interlaken for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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, Interlaken 30: Daytona Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Interlaken 25: Daytona Beach leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Interlaken 8: Daytona Beach leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Interlaken 15: Daytona Beach leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Interlaken 22: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Interlaken 8: Daytona Beach leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Interlaken 15: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Interlaken 40: Interlaken 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 Interlaken.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachInterlaken

Where the figures come from

Interlaken 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.

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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachInterlaken
Official language-French, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m571 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachInterlaken
City population72,6476,123
People per km²4401,424
Museums within 10 km63
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. 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.