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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Berlin 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 Berlin for

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

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

Choose Cocoa Beach for

  • beaches
  • 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. Berlin 38, Cocoa Beach 80: Cocoa Beach leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Cocoa Beach 32: Berlin leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Cocoa Beach 12: Berlin leads by 74 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Cocoa Beach 27: Berlin leads by 71 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Cocoa Beach 62: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Cocoa Beach 52: Berlin leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Cocoa Beach 72: Berlin leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Cocoa Beach 22: Berlin leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin 68, Cocoa Beach 20: Berlin leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Cocoa Beach 40: Berlin leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Cocoa Beach 14: Berlin leads by 76 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin 55, Cocoa Beach 30: Berlin leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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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BerlinCocoa 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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinCocoa Beach
Official languageGerman-
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
Elevation34 m0 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinCocoa Beach
City population3,700,57711,354
People per km²4,153290
Museums within 10 km1573
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-11 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.