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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 Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Nairobi?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Nairobi for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Nairobi’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, Nairobi 4: Daytona Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Nairobi 48: Nairobi leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Nairobi 35: Nairobi leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Nairobi 58: Nairobi leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Nairobi 84: Nairobi leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Nairobi 28: Daytona Beach leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Nairobi 55: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Nairobi 20: Nairobi leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Nairobi 45: Nairobi leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Nairobi 60: Nairobi leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Nairobi 35: Nairobi leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Nairobi 25: Daytona Beach 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 Nairobi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Nairobi
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachNairobi

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). Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachNairobi
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 m1,661 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachNairobi
City population72,6475,545,000
People per km²4407,967
Museums within 10 km64
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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.