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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Blue Mosque, Istanbul
IstanbulThe Blue Mosque

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

Cocoa Beach or Istanbul?

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 Istanbul for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Istanbul’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, Istanbul 45: Cocoa Beach leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Istanbul 87: Istanbul leads by 55 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Istanbul 90: Istanbul leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Istanbul 77: Istanbul leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Istanbul 52: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Istanbul 55: Istanbul leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Istanbul 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Istanbul 62: Istanbul leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Istanbul 86: Istanbul leads by 66 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Istanbul 60: Istanbul leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Istanbul 62: Istanbul leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Istanbul 75: Istanbul leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Istanbul.

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.

Istanbul
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Istanbul in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachIstanbul

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). Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachIstanbul
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 m100 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre343 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachIstanbul
City population11,35415,655,924
People per km²2902,930
Museums within 10 km373
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months3 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. 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.