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A canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains, Lake Louise
Lake LouiseA canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Lake Louise by Andrew Patrick Photo, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lake Louise 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 Lake Louise for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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. Lake Louise 5, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Lake Louise 20, Newport Beach 50: Newport Beach leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Lake Louise 7, Newport Beach 20: Newport Beach leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Lake Louise 4, Newport Beach 33: Newport Beach leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lake Louise 97, Newport Beach 66: Lake Louise leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Lake Louise 33, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Lake Louise 40, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Lake Louise 28, Newport Beach 20: Lake Louise leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Lake Louise 6, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 56 points.
Affordability. Lake Louise 9, Newport Beach 15: Newport Beach leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lake Louise 3, Newport Beach 46: Newport Beach leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lake Louise 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: Lake Louise and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Lake Louise
25match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Newport Beach
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lake Louise in July

20 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 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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Where the figures come from

Lake Louise 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. Lake Louise: 1991-2020 normals, Yoho Park (11.2 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLake LouiseNewport Beach
Official languageFrench, English-
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,600 m3 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)155 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLake LouiseNewport Beach
City population-85,239
People per km²-622
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.