page_title: Cocoa Beach, Florida
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Cocoa Beach, Florida / Economy / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: English: Surfing off Cocoa Beach Florida
context_page_description: Cocoa Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida. The population was 11,539 at the 2018 United States Census. It is part of the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
context_section_description: Ron Jon's, a surf shop, receives 2 million visitors a year. Cocoa Beach is home to the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame.
  It is estimated that there are 2.4 million day trippers annually. While businesses appreciate the tourism, it creates a parking problem for the city. There are 1,780 paved parking spaces and 607 spaces on the streets downtown, near the beach.
  The Cocoa Beach Pier, formerly known as the Cape Canaveral Pier, was built in 1962. An annual Easter Surfing Festival began in 1964. An estimated 100,000 spectators attend annually.
  An air show in 2009 drew a crowd estimated at 30,000.
  The Ron Jon Easter Surfing Festival drew 50,000 visitors in 2009.
  The largest charity surfing festival, National Kidney Foundation Pro-Am Surfing Festival, has been held every Labor Day Weekend in Cocoa Beach since 1985.
  In 2015 businesses in the city collected $5.6 million in tourist tax, over half the tourist tax collected in the county and more than any other municipality, $1.4 million.
caption: Surfing manufacture and tourism add to Cocoa Beach's economy.
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