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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Barcelona 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 Barcelona for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Cocoa Beach for

  • 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. Barcelona 75, Cocoa Beach 80: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Cocoa Beach 32: Barcelona leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Cocoa Beach 12: Barcelona leads by 74 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Cocoa Beach 27: Barcelona leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Cocoa Beach 62: Barcelona leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Cocoa Beach 52: Barcelona leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Cocoa Beach 72: Barcelona leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Cocoa Beach 22: Barcelona leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Cocoa Beach 20: Barcelona leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Cocoa Beach 40: Barcelona leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Cocoa Beach 14: Barcelona leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Cocoa Beach 30: Barcelona leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 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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BarcelonaCocoa 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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaCocoa Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation9 m0 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaCocoa Beach
City population1,731,64911,354
People per km²17,094290
Museums within 10 km953
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.