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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
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Montevideo?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Daytona Beach leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Montevideo 34: Daytona Beach leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Montevideo 55: Daytona Beach leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Montevideo 55: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Montevideo 36: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Montevideo 42: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachMontevideo

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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachMontevideo
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m41 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachMontevideo
City population72,6471,302,954
People per km²4401,785
Museums within 10 km636
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months4 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.