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The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hiroshima 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 Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

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. Hiroshima 30, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Hiroshima 66, Newport Beach 50: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Hiroshima 60, Newport Beach 20: Hiroshima leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Hiroshima 45, Newport Beach 33: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hiroshima 62, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Hiroshima 80, Newport Beach 70: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Hiroshima 60, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Hiroshima 74, Newport Beach 20: Hiroshima leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Hiroshima 52, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Hiroshima 58, Newport Beach 15: Hiroshima leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hiroshima 38, Newport Beach 46: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hiroshima 50, Newport Beach 44: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hiroshima and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and prices 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.

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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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HiroshimaNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHiroshimaNewport Beach
Official languageJapanese-
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation3 m3 m
Main airportHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHiroshimaNewport Beach
City population1,198,02185,239
People per km²1,324622
Museums within 10 km184
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. 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.