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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Dubrovnik?

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
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’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, Dubrovnik 74: Cocoa Beach leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Dubrovnik 47: Dubrovnik leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Dubrovnik 37: Dubrovnik leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Dubrovnik 70: Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Dubrovnik 66: Dubrovnik leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Dubrovnik 50: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Dubrovnik 25: Dubrovnik leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Dubrovnik 28: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Dubrovnik 25: Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Dubrovnik 32: Dubrovnik leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Dubrovnik.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families and prices with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Dubrovnik 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.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

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). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachDubrovnik
Official language-Croatian
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 m10 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachDubrovnik
City population11,35441,562
People per km²290-
Museums within 10 km37
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months5 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.