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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 fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Lima?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Daytona Beach leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Lima 88: Lima leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Lima 66: Lima leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Lima 62: Lima leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Lima 45: Daytona Beach leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Lima 34: Daytona Beach leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Lima 42: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Lima 35: Lima leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Lima 52: Lima leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Lima 70: Lima leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Lima 53: Lima leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Lima 25: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Lima.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachLima

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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation4 m154 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachLima
City population72,6479,943,800
People per km²4403,721
Museums within 10 km647
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months2 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.