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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Las Vegas?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Cocoa Beach leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Las Vegas 25: Las Vegas leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 61 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Las Vegas 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Las Vegas 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 47 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Las Vegas 38: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Las Vegas 35: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Las Vegas.

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.

Las Vegas
Best match
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachLas Vegas
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m610 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachLas Vegas
City population11,354641,903
People per km²2901,843
Museums within 10 km321
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.