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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 tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Mombasa?

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
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Mombasa’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, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Mombasa 74: Mombasa leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Mombasa 45: Daytona Beach leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Mombasa 45: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Mombasa 30: Mombasa leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Mombasa 35: Mombasa leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Mombasa 22: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Mombasa 40: Mombasa 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 Mombasa.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Mombasa in July

28 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachMombasa

Where the figures come from

Mombasa 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). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachMombasa
Official language-English, Swahili
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation4 m50 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachMombasa
City population72,6471,208,333
People per km²4404,100
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.