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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Keystone?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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, Keystone 5: Cocoa Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Keystone 27: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Keystone 7: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Keystone 12: Cocoa Beach leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Keystone 55: Keystone leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Keystone 66: Cocoa Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Keystone 50: Keystone leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Keystone 22: Keystone leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Keystone 12: Cocoa Beach leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Keystone 22: Keystone leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Keystone 32: Keystone leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Keystone.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
Best match
39match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachKeystone

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.

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachKeystone
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m2,796 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachKeystone
City population11,3541,369
People per km²29013
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 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.