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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 harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Marmaris?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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 and Marmaris are level on 80.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Marmaris 40: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Marmaris 18: Daytona Beach leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Marmaris 65: Daytona Beach leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Marmaris 38: Marmaris leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Marmaris 12: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachMarmaris
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m7 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachMarmaris
City population72,64797,818
People per km²440111
Museums within 10 km61
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months6 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.