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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
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Daytona Beach or Valletta?

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 Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Daytona Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach and Valletta are level on 56.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Valletta 58: Daytona Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Valletta 32: Valletta 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 Valletta.

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.

Valletta
Best match
55match

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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachValletta

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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m56 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachValletta
City population72,6475,197
People per km²4406,496
Museums within 10 km616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.