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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
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Daytona Beach or Samarkand?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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, Samarkand 4: Daytona Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Samarkand 14: Daytona Beach leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Samarkand 40: Daytona Beach leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Samarkand 30: Daytona Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Samarkand 58: Samarkand leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Samarkand 42: Samarkand leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Samarkand 24: Daytona Beach leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Samarkand 32: Samarkand leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Samarkand.

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 beaches and families with your weighting.

Samarkand
45match

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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachSamarkand

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). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachSamarkand
Official language-Uzbek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+5
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m702 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachSamarkand
City population72,647546,303
People per km²4405,058
Museums within 10 km611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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.