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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Montpellier?

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

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

Choose Montpellier for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’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, Montpellier 64: Cocoa Beach leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Montpellier 60: Montpellier leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Montpellier 56: Montpellier leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Montpellier 72: Montpellier leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Montpellier 62: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Montpellier 50: Montpellier leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Montpellier 42: Montpellier leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Montpellier.

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.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on getting around 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

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachMontpellier
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 m7 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachMontpellier
City population11,354310,240
People per km²2905,452
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.