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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Sorrento?

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

  • families
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’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, Sorrento 60: Cocoa Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Sorrento 32: Sorrento leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Sorrento 28: Sorrento leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Sorrento 42: Cocoa Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Sorrento 32: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Sorrento 20: Sorrento leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Sorrento 48: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Sorrento
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips 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

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Sorrento 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.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

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). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachSorrento
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachSorrento
City population11,35415,407
People per km²2901,541
Museums within 10 km36
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months5 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.