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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Vancouver?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Cocoa Beach leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Vancouver 45: Cocoa Beach leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach and Vancouver are level on 72.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Vancouver 27: Cocoa Beach leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachVancouver

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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachVancouver
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachVancouver
City population11,354662,248
People per km²2905,759
Museums within 10 km326
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. 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.