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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Tirana?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Tirana for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Cocoa Beach leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Tirana 42: Tirana leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Tirana 58: Tirana leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach and Tirana are level on 62.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Tirana 64: Tirana leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Tirana 40: Cocoa Beach leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Tirana 27: Cocoa Beach leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Tirana.

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.

Tirana
Best match
49match

Wins on prices 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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachTirana

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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachTirana
Official language-Albanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m110 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachTirana
City population11,354389,323
People per km²2909,314
Museums within 10 km311
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. 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.