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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 Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Daytona Beach or Windhoek?

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
  • families

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Daytona Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Daytona Beach and Windhoek are level on 36.
Culture & sights. Daytona Beach and Windhoek are level on 30.
Nightlife. Daytona Beach 40, Windhoek 25: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Daytona Beach 56, Windhoek 52: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Daytona Beach 66, Windhoek 14: Daytona Beach leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Daytona Beach 60, Windhoek 30: Daytona Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Daytona Beach 18, Windhoek 22: Windhoek leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Daytona Beach 27, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Daytona Beach 46, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Daytona Beach 30, Windhoek 18: Daytona Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Daytona Beach and Windhoek 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 Windhoek.

Your match

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

Daytona Beach
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices 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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Daytona BeachWindhoek

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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDaytona BeachWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m1,650 m
Main airportDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDaytona BeachWindhoek
City population72,647486,169
People per km²44095
Museums within 10 km65
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.