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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 Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.

Daytona Beach or Madrid?

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

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

Choose Madrid for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’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, Madrid 5: Daytona Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Madrid 80: Madrid leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Madrid 86: Madrid leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Madrid 85: Madrid leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Madrid 60: Madrid leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Madrid 89: Madrid leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Madrid 68: Madrid leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Madrid 84: Madrid leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Madrid 75: Madrid leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Madrid 50: Madrid leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Madrid 77: Madrid leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Madrid 36: Madrid leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Madrid.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on getting around 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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachMadrid

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachMadrid
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m663 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachMadrid
City population72,6473,506,730
People per km²4405,801
Museums within 10 km688
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.