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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Oslo?

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
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Oslo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Cocoa Beach leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Oslo 55: Oslo leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach and Oslo are level on 52.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Oslo 63: Cocoa Beach leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Oslo 14: Cocoa Beach leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Oslo.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around 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

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachOslo

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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachOslo
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation0 m23 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachOslo
City population11,354717,710
People per km²290-
Museums within 10 km360
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 monthsNone

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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.