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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Oaxaca?

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 Oaxaca for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Cocoa Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach and Oaxaca are level on 62.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Oaxaca 40: Cocoa Beach leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Oaxaca.

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.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachOaxaca
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m1,555 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachOaxaca
City population11,354258,913
People per km²2903,028
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.