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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • families
  • 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. Havana 64, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Newport Beach 50: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Newport Beach 20: Havana leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Newport Beach 33: Havana leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Newport Beach 20: Havana leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Newport Beach 15: Havana leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Newport Beach 46: Havana leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Havana
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on families 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.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HavanaNewport Beach

Where the figures come from

Havana 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaNewport Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105911
Elevation59 m3 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaNewport Beach
City population2,492,61885,239
People per km²3,423622
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), 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.