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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Goreme?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Goreme for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Goreme’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, Goreme 3: Cocoa Beach leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Goreme 20: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Goreme 45: Goreme leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Goreme 5: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Goreme 74: Goreme leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Goreme 70: Goreme leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Goreme 40: Cocoa Beach leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Goreme 40: Goreme leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Goreme 22: Goreme leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Goreme 58: Goreme leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Goreme 10: Cocoa Beach leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Goreme 42: Goreme leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Goreme.

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 families with your weighting.

Goreme
36match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachGoreme

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.

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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). Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachGoreme
Official language-Turkish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m1,100 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachGoreme
City population11,3542,000
People per km²29020
Museums within 10 km35
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.