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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
Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; London by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Daytona Beach or London?

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

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

Choose London for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on London’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, London 25: Daytona Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, London 84: London leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, London 94: London leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, London 88: London leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, London 57: London leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, London 90: London leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, London 82: London leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, London 85: London leads by 67 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, London 95: London leads by 68 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, London 15: Daytona Beach leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, London 98: London leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, London 40: London leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and London.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

London
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts 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

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachLondon

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). London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachLondon
City population72,6478,799,728
People per km²4405,598
Museums within 10 km6216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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.