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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Doha?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Doha for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Doha’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, Doha 45: Cocoa Beach leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Doha 55: Doha leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Doha 55: Doha leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Doha 20: Cocoa Beach leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Doha 7: Cocoa Beach leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Doha 5: Cocoa Beach leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Doha 60: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Doha 45: Doha leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Doha 60: Doha leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Doha 38: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Doha 30: Doha leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Doha 38: Doha leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Doha.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Doha
38match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Doha in July

43 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
33 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachDoha

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). Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachDoha
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Qatari Rial (QAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911999
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre194 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachDoha
City population11,3541,186,023
People per km²2908,985
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months9 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). 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.