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The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Athens 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 Athens for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Cocoa Beach for

  • families
  • beaches

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. Athens 70, Cocoa Beach 80: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Athens 78, Cocoa Beach 32: Athens leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Athens 88, Cocoa Beach 12: Athens leads by 76 points.
Nightlife. Athens 80, Cocoa Beach 27: Athens leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Athens 64, Cocoa Beach 62: Athens leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Athens 85, Cocoa Beach 52: Athens leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Athens 58, Cocoa Beach 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Athens 66, Cocoa Beach 22: Athens leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Athens 55, Cocoa Beach 20: Athens leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Athens 56, Cocoa Beach 40: Athens leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Athens 64, Cocoa Beach 14: Athens leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Athens 42, Cocoa Beach 30: Athens leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Athens and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °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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AthensCocoa 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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAthensCocoa Beach
Official languageGreek-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m0 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensCocoa Beach
City population643,45211,354
People per km²16,499290
Museums within 10 km883
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months11 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). 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.