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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
La Concha beach and Monte Urgull, San Sebastian
San SebastianLa Concha beach and Monte Urgull

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; San Sebastian by Guérin Nicolas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or San Sebastian?

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 San Sebastian for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Sebastian’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, San Sebastian 68: Cocoa Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, San Sebastian 88: San Sebastian leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, San Sebastian 52: San Sebastian leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, San Sebastian 44: San Sebastian leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, San Sebastian 72: San Sebastian leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, San Sebastian 80: San Sebastian leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, San Sebastian 66: Cocoa Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, San Sebastian 80: San Sebastian leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, San Sebastian 40: San Sebastian leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, San Sebastian 32: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, San Sebastian 45: San Sebastian leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, San Sebastian 50: San Sebastian 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 San Sebastian.

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.

San Sebastian
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around 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

San Sebastian in July

22 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachSan Sebastian

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.

San Sebastian's station stands 252 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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). San Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachSan Sebastian
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachSan Sebastian
City population11,354189,866
People per km²2903,118
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months2 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.