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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, Victoria
VictoriaThe British Columbia Parliament Buildings

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Victoria by Guilice, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Victoria?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Victoria for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria’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, Victoria 28: Cocoa Beach leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Victoria 50: Victoria leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Victoria 42: Victoria leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Victoria 30: Victoria leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Victoria 77: Victoria leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Victoria 54: Victoria leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Victoria 62: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Victoria 60: Victoria leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Victoria 40: Victoria leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Victoria 34: Cocoa Beach leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Victoria 40: Victoria leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Victoria 48: Victoria leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Victoria.

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.

Victoria
Best match
47match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Victoria in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachVictoria

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.

Victoria's sunshine is measured 87 km from the centre, at Vancouver International Airport.

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). Victoria: 1991-2020 normals, Victoria Gonzales CS (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachVictoria
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 m23 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsVictoria International Airport (YYJ)25 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachVictoria
City population11,35491,867
People per km²2904,711
Museums within 10 km36
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.