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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
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

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

Daytona Beach or Porto?

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
  • families

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

Choose Porto for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Daytona Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Porto 70: Porto leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Porto 68: Porto leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Porto 65: Porto leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Porto 64: Porto leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Porto 79: Porto leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Porto 52: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Porto 66: Porto leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Porto 52: Porto leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Porto 62: Porto leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Porto 52: Porto leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Porto 34: Porto leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Porto.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachPorto

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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachPorto
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m104 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachPorto
City population72,647273,476
People per km²4406,606
Museums within 10 km642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 monthsNone

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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.