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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas

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

Cocoa Beach or Guadalajara?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Guadalajara for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Guadalajara’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, Guadalajara 5: Cocoa Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Guadalajara 75: Guadalajara leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Guadalajara 62: Guadalajara leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Guadalajara 68: Guadalajara leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Guadalajara 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Guadalajara 66: Guadalajara leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Guadalajara 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Guadalajara 40: Guadalajara leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Guadalajara 78: Guadalajara leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Guadalajara 35: Guadalajara leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Guadalajara.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Guadalajara
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 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.

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachGuadalajara
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m1,536 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachGuadalajara
City population11,3541,385,621
People per km²2909,556
Museums within 10 km317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.