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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach or Ubud?

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

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Ubud for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Huntington Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Ubud 15: Huntington Beach leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Ubud 48: Huntington Beach leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Ubud 10: Huntington Beach leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 60 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Ubud.

Your match

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

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on wellness and prices 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
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Huntington BeachUbud

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachUbud
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m210 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachUbud
City population198,711-
People per km²2,406-
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.