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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Liverpool’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. Liverpool 22, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Newport Beach 50: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Newport Beach 20: Liverpool leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Newport Beach 33: Liverpool leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Newport Beach 20: Liverpool leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Newport Beach 15: Liverpool leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Newport Beach 46: Liverpool leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Liverpool
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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.

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolNewport Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m3 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolNewport Beach
City population513,44185,239
People per km²4,592622
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.