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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Havana?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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, Havana 64: Cocoa Beach leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Havana 40: Havana leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Havana 77: Havana leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Havana 60: Havana leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Havana 34: Cocoa Beach leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Havana 38: Cocoa Beach leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Havana 34: Cocoa Beach leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Havana 38: Havana leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Havana 30: Havana leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Havana 58: Havana leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Havana 74: Havana leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Havana 22: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Havana.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

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

Havana
Best match
47match

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
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.

Havana 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). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachHavana
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation0 m59 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachHavana
City population11,3542,492,618
People per km²2903,423
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.