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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 lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Paphos?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Paphos for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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, Paphos 76: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Paphos 45: Paphos leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Paphos 38: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Paphos 64: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Paphos 25: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Paphos 22: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Paphos 42: Paphos 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 Paphos.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches with your weighting.

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos 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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachPaphos
Official language-Turkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m72 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachPaphos
City population72,64735,961
People per km²4401,987
Museums within 10 km64
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months6 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.