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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 yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo, Merida
MeridaThe yellow Palacio Canton on Paseo de Montejo

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Merida by Mariposa2723, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Merida?

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
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Merida for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Merida’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, Merida 50: Daytona Beach leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Merida 72: Merida leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Merida 64: Merida leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Merida 42: Merida leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Merida 48: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Merida 80: Merida leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Merida 50: Daytona Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Merida 45: Merida leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Merida 50: Merida leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Merida 75: Merida leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Merida 52: Merida leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Merida 40: Merida 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 Merida.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Merida
Best match
56match

Wins on food and drink 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

Merida in July

35 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
148 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachMerida

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). Merida: 1991-2020 normals, Merida / lic Manuel Crecencio (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachMerida
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-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m12 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsManuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (MID)5 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachMerida
City population72,647892,363
People per km²4401,010
Museums within 10 km65
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.