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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Berlin 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 Berlin for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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. Berlin 38, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Newport Beach 50: Berlin leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Newport Beach 20: Berlin leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Newport Beach 33: Berlin leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Newport Beach 20: Berlin leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin 68, Newport Beach 62: Berlin leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Newport Beach 15: Berlin leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Newport Beach 46: Berlin leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin 55, Newport Beach 44: Berlin leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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.

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 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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BerlinNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinNewport Beach
Official languageGerman-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation34 m3 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinNewport Beach
City population3,700,57785,239
People per km²4,153622
Museums within 10 km1574
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
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.