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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach or New York?

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 Huntington Beach for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose New York for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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. Huntington Beach 70, New York 50: Huntington Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, New York 92: New York leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, New York 89: New York leads by 75 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, New York 97: New York leads by 59 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, New York 55: Huntington Beach leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, New York 68: New York leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, New York 70: Huntington Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, New York 82: New York leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, New York 97: New York leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, New York 12: Huntington Beach leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, New York 99: New York leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, New York 42: New York leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and New York.

Your match

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

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Huntington Beach in July

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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Huntington BeachNew York

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachNew York
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m25 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachNew York
City population198,7118,804,190
People per km²2,4067,256
Museums within 10 km3157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.