United States / Florida
Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach is a coastal resort area in Florida, United States. The sea averages 27.9 °C in September, its warmest month, and 19.4 °C in February; it is 21 °C or warmer in April–December.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 73Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 4Public toilets
- –Showers
- 78Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 8Hotels & guesthouses
- 9Grocery shops
- 2Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Pharmacies & clinics
- 1Historic sites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 50 restaurants, 6 cafés, 14 bars and 3 fast-food outlets. Accommodation: 8 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Month by month
October at Daytona Beach
Beach-day index 8.4/10 · United States median 4.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 20.0 °C | 19.4 °C | 20.0 °C | 21.9 °C | 24.4 °C | 26.6 °C | 27.6 °C | 27.8 °C | 27.9 °C | 26.3 °C | 23.3 °C | 21.3 °C |
| High °C | 20° | 20° | 21° | 23° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 26° | 23° | 21° |
| Low °C | 17° | 17° | 19° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 25° | 21° | 19° |
| Rain mm | 75 | 79 | 81 | 67 | 108 | 194 | 189 | 199 | 175 | 95 | 62 | 80 |
| Cloud % | 67 | 64 | 58 | 54 | 52 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 60 | 54 | 60 | 65 |
| Wind m/s | 6.2 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 6.0 |
| Daylight h | 10.5 | 11.2 | 12.0 | 12.8 | 13.6 | 14.0 | 13.9 | 13.2 | 12.4 | 11.5 | 10.7 | 10.3 |
| Record high/low | 25°/6° | 25°/7° | 26°/9° | 27°/13° | 29°/17° | 30°/22° | 31°/25° | 31°/25° | 30°/23° | 30°/15° | 27°/12° | 26°/6° |
| Beach index | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 7.4 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 7.8 | 6.2 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in May and October; May scores 8.4/10 with highs of 25 °C, sea at 24.4 °C and 108 mm of rain.
In May that is 3.7 points above the median of the 2,466 beaches in United States covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 7.0 °C warmer than the United States median for September (20.9 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 23.9 °C, warmer than 74% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
August is the wettest month (199 mm) and November the driest (62 mm); the yearly total is about 1,400 mm.
Daylight runs from 10.3 hours in December to 14.0 hours in June; in mid-May the sun rises at 06:32 and sets at 20:07 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces east-north-east (65°). Open water fills about 22% of the horizon close by, which makes it a sheltered cove or bay.
At no time of year does the sun set over the sea here: sunset bearings run from 244° to 297°, behind the land.
Sunrise is over the sea in February–October.
The opposite shore is only about 500 m away to the east-north-east, which keeps the water sheltered from big waves.
The sea floor is still within the shallow coastal margin 1 km out; 3 km offshore the depth is about 10 m. Behind the beach the ground is about 6 m above sea level 500 m inland and 7 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 64% built-up land, 18% tree cover and 15% grassland (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 16% of that circle.
- Built 64%
- Tree 18%
- Grass 15%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daytona Beach International Airport Daytona Beach | DAB | 4.7 km | south-west |
| Orlando Sanford International Airport Orlando | SFB | 52.7 km | south-west |
| Northeast Florida Regional Airport St Augustine | UST | 88.7 km | north |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 2 bus stops within 1.5 km and 78 mapped car parks within 1 km.
6 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 202.4K residents); within 30 km there are 12 (about 266.5K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Veterans Museum & Education Center museum 390 m E
- Daytona Arcade Museum museum 400 m NE
- Halifax Historical Museum museum 540 m SE
Historic sites
- Veterans Memorial at Riverfront Park monument 420 m NE
Map and nearby beaches
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 17.2 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2C_17RMN_20250226_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 301K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.