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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
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

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

Daytona Beach or Inverness?

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
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Inverness for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’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, Inverness 20: Daytona Beach leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach and Inverness are level on 36.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Inverness 27: Daytona Beach leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Inverness 28: Daytona Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Inverness 56: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Inverness 55: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Inverness 48: Inverness leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Inverness 30: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Inverness 38: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Inverness 33: Inverness leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach and Inverness are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Inverness.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachInverness

Where the figures come from

Inverness 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.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

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). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachInverness
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation4 m7 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachInverness
City population72,64747,380
People per km²4402,289
Museums within 10 km63
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.