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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Nairobi?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Nairobi for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nairobi’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, Nairobi 4: Cocoa Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Nairobi 48: Nairobi leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Nairobi 35: Nairobi leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Nairobi 58: Nairobi leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Nairobi 84: Nairobi leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Nairobi 28: Cocoa Beach leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Nairobi 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Nairobi 20: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Nairobi 45: Nairobi leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Nairobi 60: Nairobi leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Nairobi 35: Nairobi leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Nairobi 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Nairobi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Nairobi
41match

Wins on nightlife and shopping 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

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachNairobi

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). Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachNairobi
Official language-English, Swahili
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation0 m1,661 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachNairobi
City population11,3545,545,000
People per km²2907,967
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.