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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Montevideo 34: Cocoa Beach leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Montevideo 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Montevideo 36: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachMontevideo

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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachMontevideo
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m41 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachMontevideo
City population11,3541,302,954
People per km²2901,785
Museums within 10 km336
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months4 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.