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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 church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or La Romana?

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

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose La Romana for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’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, La Romana 84: La Romana leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, La Romana 38: La Romana leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, La Romana 24: Daytona Beach leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, La Romana 30: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, La Romana 62: La Romana leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, La Romana 52: Daytona Beach leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, La Romana 56: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, La Romana 24: La Romana leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, La Romana 28: La Romana leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, La Romana 50: La Romana leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, La Romana 17: Daytona Beach leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, La Romana 44: La Romana leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and La Romana.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

La Romana
42match

Wins on wellness 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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachLa Romana

Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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). La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachLa Romana
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m10 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachLa Romana
City population72,647139,238
People per km²440512
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 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.