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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • 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. Hong Kong 50, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Newport Beach 50: Hong Kong leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Newport Beach 20: Hong Kong leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Newport Beach 33: Hong Kong leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Newport Beach 66: Hong Kong leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Newport Beach 20: Hong Kong leads by 77 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Newport Beach 62: Hong Kong leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Newport Beach 15: Hong Kong leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Newport Beach 46: Hong Kong leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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.

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Hong KongNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongNewport Beach
Official languageStandard Chinese-
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongNewport Beach
City population7,413,07085,239
People per km²-622
Museums within 10 km394
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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.