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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Hurghada?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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, Hurghada 84: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Hurghada 34: Hurghada leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Hurghada 14: Hurghada leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Hurghada 40: Hurghada leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Hurghada 72: Hurghada leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Hurghada 30: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Hurghada 62: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach and Hurghada are level on 22.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Hurghada 24: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Hurghada 80: Hurghada leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Hurghada 10: Cocoa Beach leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Hurghada 44: Hurghada leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Hurghada.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Hurghada
Best match
43match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachHurghada

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). Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachHurghada
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachHurghada
City population11,354214,247
People per km²290-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months12 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. 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.