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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
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Puerto Escondido 8: Daytona Beach leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Puerto Escondido 35: Daytona Beach leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Puerto Escondido 42: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Puerto Escondido 22: Daytona Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Puerto Escondido 12: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Puerto Escondido.

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 day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachPuerto Escondido

Where the figures come from

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachPuerto Escondido
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 m60 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachPuerto Escondido
City population72,64729,903
People per km²440-
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.