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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Maastricht?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Maastricht for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Maastricht’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, Maastricht 8: Cocoa Beach leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Maastricht 58: Maastricht leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Maastricht 42: Maastricht leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Maastricht 58: Cocoa Beach leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Maastricht 77: Maastricht leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Maastricht 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Maastricht 74: Maastricht leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Maastricht 38: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Maastricht 40: Maastricht leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Maastricht 52: Maastricht leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Maastricht.

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.

Maastricht
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around 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

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 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 BeachMaastricht

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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachMaastricht
Official language-Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m49 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachMaastricht
City population11,354120,227
People per km²2902,000
Museums within 10 km321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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.