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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Burj Al Arab, Dubai
DubaiThe Burj Al Arab

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Dubai by Aleksandar Pasaric, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Dubai?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Dubai for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubai’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 Dubai are level on 80.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Dubai 76: Dubai leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Dubai 40: Dubai leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Dubai 62: Dubai leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Dubai 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Dubai 45: Cocoa Beach leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Dubai 82: Dubai leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Dubai 42: Dubai leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Dubai 82: Dubai leads by 62 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Dubai 32: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Dubai 40: Dubai leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Dubai 46: Dubai leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Dubai.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

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

Dubai
Best match
54match

Wins on shopping 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Dubai in July

42 °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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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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachDubai
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre294 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachDubai
City population11,3543,944,751
People per km²290-
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.