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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Lima?

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 Lima for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Cocoa Beach leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Lima 88: Lima leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Lima 66: Lima leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Lima 62: Lima leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Lima 45: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Lima 34: Cocoa Beach leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Lima 42: Cocoa Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Lima 35: Lima leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Lima 52: Lima leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Lima 70: Lima leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Lima 53: Lima leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Lima 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Lima.

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.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation0 m154 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachLima
City population11,3549,943,800
People per km²2903,721
Museums within 10 km347
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months2 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.