Daytona Beach, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Daytona Beach reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 36.5% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Daytona Beach is from a meaningfully darker sky

Ormond Beach, FL, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Daytona Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Ormond Beach, FL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Daytona Beach compares nationally

About 86,015 people live in Daytona Beach, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Daytona Beach places 1,165 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.