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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
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Mazatlan?

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

  • day trips

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

Choose Mazatlan for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Mazatlan’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 Mazatlan are level on 80.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Mazatlan 42: Mazatlan leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Mazatlan 55: Mazatlan leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Mazatlan 66: Mazatlan leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Mazatlan 45: Daytona Beach leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach and Mazatlan are level on 60.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Mazatlan 42: Mazatlan leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Mazatlan 30: Mazatlan leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Mazatlan 70: Mazatlan leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Mazatlan 40: Mazatlan leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Mazatlan 35: Mazatlan 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 Mazatlan.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips with your weighting.

Mazatlan
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and getting around 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

Mazatlan in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachMazatlan

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). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachMazatlan
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m139 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachMazatlan
City population72,647441,975
People per km²440-
Museums within 10 km63
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 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.