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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antwerp or Newport Beach?

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 Antwerp for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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. Antwerp 15, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Newport Beach 50: Antwerp leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Newport Beach 20: Antwerp leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Newport Beach 33: Antwerp leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Newport Beach 70: Antwerp leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Newport Beach 20: Antwerp leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Newport Beach 62: Antwerp leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Newport Beach 15: Antwerp leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Newport Beach 46: Antwerp leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Antwerp
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpNewport Beach
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpNewport Beach
City population529,24785,239
People per km²2,542622
Museums within 10 km384
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.