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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
A palm-lined Hollywood street with the Hollywood Sign behind, Los Angeles
Los AngelesA palm-lined Hollywood street with the Hollywood Sign behind

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Los Angeles by BenSherman, Public domain.

Daytona Beach or Los Angeles?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Daytona Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Los Angeles 60: Daytona Beach leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Los Angeles 25: Los Angeles leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 53 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Los Angeles 24: Daytona Beach leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachLos Angeles

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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachLos Angeles
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m106 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachLos Angeles
City population72,6473,898,747
People per km²4402,994
Museums within 10 km639
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 monthsNone

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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.