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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 beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Daytona Beach or Nuevo Vallarta?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Daytona Beach leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Daytona Beach leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Daytona Beach leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Daytona Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachNuevo Vallarta
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 m3 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachNuevo Vallarta
City population72,6471,301
People per km²440-
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.