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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Krakow?

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 Krakow for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Cocoa Beach leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach and Krakow are level on 62.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Krakow 58: Cocoa Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Krakow 36: Krakow leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Krakow.

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.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachKrakow

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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachKrakow
Official language-Polish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m219 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachKrakow
City population11,354804,237
People per km²2902,459
Museums within 10 km3113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.