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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 red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Daytona Beach or Wellington?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Wellington for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Daytona Beach leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach 36, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach 30, Wellington 44: Wellington leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Wellington 40: Daytona Beach leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Wellington 42: Wellington leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Wellington 33: Daytona Beach leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach and Wellington are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Daytona Beach and Wellington.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Wellington
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachWellington

Where the figures come from

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachWellington
Official language-English, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number911111
Elevation4 m0 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachWellington
City population72,647216,200
People per km²440487
Museums within 10 km612
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.