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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Tromso?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Tromso for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Cocoa Beach leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Tromso 36: Tromso leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Tromso 27: Tromso leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Tromso 14: Cocoa Beach leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Tromso 45: Cocoa Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Tromso 15: Cocoa Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Tromso 11: Cocoa Beach leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Tromso 32: Tromso leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Tromso.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
Best match
39match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachTromso

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachTromso
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachTromso
City population11,35479,943
People per km²29032
Museums within 10 km38
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 monthsNone

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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.