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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Izmir?

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 Izmir for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’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, Izmir 62: Cocoa Beach leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Izmir 72: Izmir leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Izmir 60: Izmir leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Izmir 86: Izmir leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Izmir 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Izmir 63: Izmir leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Izmir 48: Izmir leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Izmir 57: Izmir leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Izmir.

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.

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 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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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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachIzmir
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 m2 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachIzmir
City population11,3544,493,242
People per km²2904,760
Museums within 10 km329
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months5 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.