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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Ghent?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Ghent for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Ghent 62: Ghent leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Ghent 55: Ghent leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Ghent 35: Cocoa Beach leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Ghent 50: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Ghent 50: Ghent leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Ghent 38: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Ghent 60: Ghent leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Ghent 33: Ghent leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Ghent.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

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

Ghent
Best match
54match

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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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.

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachGhent
Official language-French, German, Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m12 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachGhent
City population11,354272,657
People per km²2901,728
Museums within 10 km330
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 monthsNone

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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. 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.