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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Beijing 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 Beijing for

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

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

Choose Cocoa Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Beijing 6, Cocoa Beach 80: Cocoa Beach leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Cocoa Beach 32: Beijing leads by 49 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Cocoa Beach 12: Beijing leads by 81 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Cocoa Beach 27: Beijing leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Cocoa Beach 62: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Cocoa Beach 52: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Cocoa Beach 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Cocoa Beach 22: Beijing leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Cocoa Beach 20: Beijing leads by 52 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Cocoa Beach 40: Beijing leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Cocoa Beach 14: Beijing leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Cocoa Beach 30: Beijing leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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.

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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BeijingCocoa 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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingCocoa Beach
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m0 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingCocoa Beach
City population21,893,09511,354
People per km²1,334290
Museums within 10 km833
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-11 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.