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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Deer Valley?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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, Deer Valley 10: Cocoa Beach leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Deer Valley 38: Deer Valley leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Deer Valley 15: Deer Valley leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Deer Valley 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Deer Valley 38: Cocoa Beach leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Deer Valley 60: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Deer Valley 50: Deer Valley leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Deer Valley 25: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Deer Valley 4: Cocoa Beach leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Deer Valley 30: Deer Valley leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Deer Valley 52: Deer Valley leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
Best match
39match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachDeer Valley

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.

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachDeer Valley
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m2,474 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachDeer Valley
City population11,354-
People per km²290-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.