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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Marseille?

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

  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Marseille for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’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, Marseille 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Marseille 67: Marseille leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Marseille 63: Marseille leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Marseille 83: Marseille leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Marseille 86: Marseille leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Marseille 50: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Marseille 47: Marseille leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Marseille 45: Marseille leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Marseille 56: Marseille leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Marseille 37: Marseille leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Marseille.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachMarseille
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachMarseille
City population11,354886,040
People per km²2903,683
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months2 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.