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Cocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols, Cocoa Beach
Cocoa BeachCocoa Beach Pier behind yellow parasols
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Cocoa Beach by Benoît Prieur, CC0; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Cocoa Beach or Zadar?

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

  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Zadar for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Cocoa Beach leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cocoa Beach 32, Zadar 45: Zadar leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cocoa Beach 12, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Cocoa Beach 27, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cocoa Beach 62, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Cocoa Beach 52, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Cocoa Beach 72, Zadar 55: Cocoa Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Cocoa Beach 22, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Cocoa Beach 20, Zadar 27: Zadar leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Cocoa Beach 40, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cocoa Beach 14, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cocoa Beach 30, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cocoa Beach and Zadar.

Your match

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

Cocoa Beach
39match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights 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
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Zadar 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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCocoa BeachZadar
Official language-Croatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)68 km from centre170 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCocoa BeachZadar
City population11,35470,779
People per km²290-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months4 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. 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.