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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; London by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or London?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose London for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on London’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, London 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, London 84: London leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, London 94: London leads by 82 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, London 88: London leads by 61 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, London 57: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, London 90: London leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, London 82: London leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, London 85: London leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, London 95: London leads by 75 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, London 15: Cocoa Beach leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, London 98: London leads by 84 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, London 40: London 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 London.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

London
Best match
71match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachLondon

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). London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachLondon
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachLondon
City population11,3548,799,728
People per km²2905,598
Museums within 10 km3216
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. 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.