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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Cocoa Beach for

  • families
  • prices

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. Antibes and Cocoa Beach are level on 80.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Cocoa Beach 32: Antibes leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Cocoa Beach 12: Antibes leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Cocoa Beach 27: Antibes leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Cocoa Beach 62: Antibes leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Cocoa Beach 52: Antibes leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Cocoa Beach 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Cocoa Beach 22: Antibes leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Cocoa Beach 20: Antibes leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Cocoa Beach 40: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Cocoa Beach 14: Antibes leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Cocoa Beach 30: Antibes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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AntibesCocoa 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. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesCocoa Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesCocoa Beach
City population77,63711,354
People per km²2,930290
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months11 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.