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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Toronto?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Toronto for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Cocoa Beach leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Toronto 52: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Toronto 50: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Toronto 34: Cocoa Beach leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Toronto 33: Toronto 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 Toronto.

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.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachToronto

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachToronto
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m76 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachToronto
City population11,3542,794,356
People per km²2904,434
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months1 month

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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.