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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
Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
KathmanduSwayambhunath with its prayer flags

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Kathmandu by Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Kathmandu?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Kathmandu for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kathmandu’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, Kathmandu 4: Daytona Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Kathmandu 82: Kathmandu leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Kathmandu 36: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Kathmandu 70: Kathmandu leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Kathmandu 56: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Kathmandu 20: Daytona Beach leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Kathmandu 25: Kathmandu leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Kathmandu 55: Kathmandu leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Kathmandu 97: Kathmandu leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Kathmandu 28: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Kathmandu 45: Kathmandu leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Kathmandu.

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.

Kathmandu
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Kathmandu in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
384 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachKathmandu

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). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachKathmandu
Official language-Nepali
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+5:45
Emergency number911Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation4 m1,300 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachKathmandu
City population72,647845,767
People per km²44017,121
Museums within 10 km69
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. 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.