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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Palermo?

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

  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Palermo for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Cocoa Beach leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 49 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Palermo 44: Cocoa Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach and Palermo are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Palermo.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °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.

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

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). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachPalermo
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachPalermo
City population11,354630,167
People per km²2903,924
Museums within 10 km342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months5 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.