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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Cologne?

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 Cocoa Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Cologne for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cologne’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. Cocoa Beach 80, Cologne 14: Cocoa Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Cologne 52: Cologne leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Cologne 67: Cologne leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Cologne 66: Cologne leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Cologne 56: Cocoa Beach leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Cologne 80: Cologne leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Cologne 70: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Cologne 74: Cologne leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Cologne 57: Cologne leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Cologne 46: Cologne leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Cologne 68: Cologne leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Cologne 50: Cologne leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Cologne.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

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

Cologne
Best match
58match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachCologne

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. Cocoa Beach: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base (11.2 km from centre). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachCologne
Official language-German
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m59 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachCologne
City population11,3541,025,523
People per km²2902,532
Museums within 10 km340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.