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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Bogota 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 Bogota for

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

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

Choose Cocoa Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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. Bogota 5, Cocoa Beach 80: Cocoa Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Cocoa Beach 32: Bogota leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Cocoa Beach 12: Bogota leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Cocoa Beach 27: Bogota leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Cocoa Beach 62: Bogota leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bogota and Cocoa Beach are level on 52.
Good for families. Bogota 45, Cocoa Beach 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Cocoa Beach 22: Bogota leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Cocoa Beach 20: Bogota leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Cocoa Beach 40: Bogota leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Cocoa Beach 14: Bogota leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Cocoa Beach 30: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Bogota
Best match
52match

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.

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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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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. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBogotaCocoa Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation2,582 m0 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaCocoa Beach
City population8,034,64911,354
People per km²5,092290
Museums within 10 km303
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.