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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Catania’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. Catania 72, Cocoa Beach 80: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Cocoa Beach 32: Catania leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Cocoa Beach 12: Catania leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Cocoa Beach 27: Catania leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Cocoa Beach 62: Catania leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Cocoa Beach 52: Catania leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Cocoa Beach 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Cocoa Beach 22: Catania leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Cocoa Beach 20: Catania leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Cocoa Beach 40: Catania leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Cocoa Beach 14: Catania leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania and Cocoa Beach are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Cocoa Beach.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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.

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 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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Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaCocoa Beach
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaCocoa Beach
City population311,58411,354
People per km²1,704290
Museums within 10 km253
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.