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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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. Lisbon 50, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Newport Beach 50: Lisbon leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Newport Beach 20: Lisbon leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Newport Beach 33: Lisbon leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Newport Beach 66: Lisbon leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Newport Beach 70: Lisbon leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Newport Beach 20: Lisbon leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Newport Beach 15: Lisbon leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Newport Beach 46: Lisbon leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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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LisbonNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonNewport Beach
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m3 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonNewport Beach
City population545,79685,239
People per km²5,453622
Museums within 10 km804
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.