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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 painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Valparaiso?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Daytona Beach leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Valparaiso 50: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Valparaiso 63: Daytona Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Valparaiso 33: Daytona Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Valparaiso 44: Valparaiso leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Valparaiso 30: Valparaiso leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Valparaiso 38: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach 30, Valparaiso 18: Daytona Beach leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Valparaiso.

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.

Valparaiso
Best match
46match

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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachValparaiso
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation4 m21 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachValparaiso
City population72,647296,655
People per km²4406,180
Museums within 10 km617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.