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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Cocoa Beach or Ushuaia?

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
  • families

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Cocoa Beach leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Ushuaia 40: Ushuaia leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Ushuaia 18: Cocoa Beach leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Ushuaia 14: Cocoa Beach leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Ushuaia 40: Cocoa Beach leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Ushuaia 45: Ushuaia leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Ushuaia 42: Ushuaia leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Ushuaia 10: Cocoa Beach leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Ushuaia 26: Cocoa Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Ushuaia.

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.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
No seasea
8 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachUshuaia

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). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachUshuaia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation0 m23 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachUshuaia
City population11,35482,615
People per km²2903,592
Museums within 10 km35
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.