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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
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or New York?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New York for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: Daytona Beach leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, New York 92: New York leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, New York 89: New York leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, New York 97: New York leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, New York 55: Daytona Beach leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, New York 68: New York leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, New York 70: New York leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, New York 82: New York leads by 64 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, New York 97: New York leads by 70 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, New York 12: Daytona Beach leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, New York 99: New York leads by 69 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, New York 42: New York leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and New York.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachNew York

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachNew York
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation4 m25 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachNew York
City population72,6478,804,190
People per km²4407,256
Museums within 10 km6157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months3 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.