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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Windhoek?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Cocoa Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Windhoek 36: Windhoek leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Windhoek 25: Cocoa Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Windhoek 52: Cocoa Beach leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Windhoek 14: Cocoa Beach leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Windhoek 30: Cocoa Beach leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach and Windhoek are level on 22.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach and Windhoek are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Windhoek.

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 families with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Cocoa BeachWindhoek

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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachWindhoek
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m1,650 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachWindhoek
City population11,354486,169
People per km²29095
Museums within 10 km35
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months-

Where else could you go?

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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.