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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Hiroshima?

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

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Cocoa Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach and Hiroshima are level on 62.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Hiroshima 60: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Hiroshima.

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.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachHiroshima

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.

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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachHiroshima
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachHiroshima
City population11,3541,198,021
People per km²2901,324
Museums within 10 km318
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.