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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Adelaide or Cocoa Beach?

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 Adelaide for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Cocoa Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Cocoa Beach’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. Adelaide 68, Cocoa Beach 80: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Cocoa Beach 32: Adelaide leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Cocoa Beach 12: Adelaide leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Cocoa Beach 27: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Cocoa Beach 62: Adelaide leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Cocoa Beach 52: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Cocoa Beach 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Cocoa Beach 22: Adelaide leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Cocoa Beach 20: Adelaide leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Adelaide and Cocoa Beach are level on 40.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Cocoa Beach 14: Adelaide leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Cocoa Beach 30: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink with your weighting.

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Cocoa Beach in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
147 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideCocoa Beach

Where the figures come from

Cocoa Beach 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. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideCocoa Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideCocoa Beach
City population1,387,29011,354
People per km²1,071290
Museums within 10 km133
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months11 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Cocoa Beach somewhere new.

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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.