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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 Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Keystone?

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 Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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, Keystone 5: Daytona Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Keystone 27: Daytona Beach leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Keystone 7: Daytona Beach leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Keystone 12: Daytona Beach leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Keystone 55: Daytona Beach leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Keystone 50: Keystone leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Keystone 22: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Keystone 12: Daytona Beach leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Keystone 22: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Keystone 32: Keystone leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Keystone.

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 prices with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 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 BeachKeystone

Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachKeystone
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m2,796 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachKeystone
City population72,6471,369
People per km²44013
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.