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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Delhi 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 Delhi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Delhi 4, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Newport Beach 50: Delhi leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Newport Beach 20: Delhi leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Newport Beach 33: Delhi leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 48 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Newport Beach 20: Delhi leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Newport Beach 62: Delhi leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Newport Beach 15: Delhi leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Newport Beach 46: Delhi leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Delhi
Best match
53match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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DelhiNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiNewport Beach
Official languageHindi, English-
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation221 m3 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiNewport Beach
City population26,495,00085,239
People per km²18,962622
Museums within 10 km234
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.