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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The cathedral and the Leaning Tower, Pisa
PisaThe cathedral and the Leaning Tower

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Pisa by Bruno Kraler, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Pisa?

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 Pisa for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Pisa’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, Pisa 58: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Pisa 55: Pisa leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Pisa 68: Pisa leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Pisa 40: Pisa leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach and Pisa are level on 62.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Pisa 92: Pisa leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Pisa 52: Cocoa Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Pisa 76: Pisa leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Pisa 38: Pisa leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Pisa 55: Pisa leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Pisa 38: Pisa leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Pisa 45: Pisa leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Pisa.

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.

Pisa
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Pisa in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachPisa

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachPisa
City population11,35488,737
People per km²290479
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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.