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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Da Nang?

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

  • families

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

Choose Da Nang for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Da Nang’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 and Da Nang are level on 80.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Da Nang 67: Da Nang leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Da Nang 38: Da Nang leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Da Nang 44: Da Nang leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Da Nang 72: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Da Nang 62: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Da Nang 38: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Da Nang 40: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Da Nang 90: Da Nang leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Da Nang 20: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Da Nang 64: Da Nang leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Da Nang.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families with your weighting.

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Da Nang in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachDa Nang

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). Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachDa Nang
Official language-Vietnamese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Dong (VND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation0 m19 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachDa Nang
City population11,3542,819,900
People per km²290238
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months12 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. 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.