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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Sedona?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Cocoa Beach leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Sedona 33: Sedona leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Sedona 20: Sedona leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Sedona 8: Cocoa Beach leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Sedona 42: Cocoa Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach and Sedona are level on 22.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Sedona 34: Sedona leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Sedona 18: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Sedona 13: Cocoa Beach leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 52 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Sedona.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
Best match
39match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachSedona

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.

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachSedona
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m1,319 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachSedona
City population11,3549,684
People per km²290195
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.