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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 main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Sayulita?

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 Sayulita for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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 and Sayulita are level on 80.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Sayulita 7: Daytona Beach leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Sayulita 33: Daytona Beach leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Sayulita 42: Daytona Beach leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Sayulita 42: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Sayulita 45: Daytona Beach leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Sayulita 12: Daytona Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Sayulita 58: Sayulita 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 Sayulita.

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 day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on getting around and wellness 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

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 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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Where the figures come from

Sayulita 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). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachSayulita
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 m2 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachSayulita
City population72,6473,390
People per km²440-
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.