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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Santiago de Compostela?

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 Santiago de Compostela for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’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, Santiago de Compostela 32: Cocoa Beach leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach and Santiago de Compostela are level on 62.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Santiago de Compostela 72: Santiago de Compostela leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Santiago de Compostela 42: Cocoa Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Santiago de Compostela 35: Santiago de Compostela leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Santiago de Compostela 64: Santiago de Compostela leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Santiago de Compostela.

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.

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
54match

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

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachSantiago de Compostela

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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachSantiago de Compostela
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 m260 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachSantiago de Compostela
City population11,354100,965
People per km²290459
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.