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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Jakarta?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Jakarta for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’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, Jakarta 28: Cocoa Beach leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Jakarta 78: Jakarta leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Jakarta 48: Jakarta leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Jakarta 66: Jakarta leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Jakarta 30: Cocoa Beach leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Jakarta 45: Cocoa Beach leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Jakarta 50: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Jakarta 36: Jakarta leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Jakarta 64: Jakarta leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Jakarta 80: Jakarta leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Jakarta 42: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Jakarta 46: Jakarta leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Jakarta.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink 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

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachJakarta

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). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachJakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m91 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachJakarta
City population11,35411,135,191
People per km²29016,821
Museums within 10 km344
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.