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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Siem Reap?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Cocoa Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Siem Reap 45: Siem Reap leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 76 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Siem Reap 42: Siem Reap leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Siem Reap 40: Cocoa Beach leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Siem Reap 55: Siem Reap leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Siem Reap 35: Cocoa Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Siem Reap 30: Siem Reap leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Siem Reap 38: Siem Reap leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Siem Reap 32: Siem Reap leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Siem Reap.

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.

Siem Reap
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachSiem Reap

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.

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachSiem Reap
Official language-Khmer
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation0 m18 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachSiem Reap
City population11,354147,866
People per km²290-
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.