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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower, Shanghai
ShanghaiThe Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Shanghai by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Shanghai?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Shanghai for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Shanghai’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, Shanghai 10: Cocoa Beach leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Shanghai 88: Shanghai leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Shanghai 72: Shanghai leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Shanghai 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Shanghai 90: Shanghai leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Shanghai 85: Shanghai leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Shanghai 82: Shanghai leads by 62 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Shanghai 55: Shanghai leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Shanghai 66: Shanghai leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Shanghai 55: Shanghai leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Shanghai.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Shanghai
Best match
66match

Wins on getting around 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Shanghai in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
151 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachShanghai

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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachShanghai
Official language-Putonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre207 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachShanghai
City population11,35424,870,895
People per km²2903,922
Museums within 10 km345
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months5 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. 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.