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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Paris?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Paris for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Cocoa Beach leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Paris 96: Paris leads by 64 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Paris 97: Paris leads by 85 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Paris 80: Paris leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Paris 52: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Paris 92: Paris leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Paris 79: Paris leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Paris 88: Paris leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Paris 98: Paris leads by 78 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Paris 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Paris 88: Paris leads by 74 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Paris 40: Paris leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Paris.

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.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on culture and sights 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachParis

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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachParis
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 m27 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachParis
City population11,3542,103,778
People per km²29019,960
Museums within 10 km3251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.