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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Nashville 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 Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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. Nashville 14, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Newport Beach 50: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Newport Beach 20: Nashville leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Newport Beach 33: Nashville leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Newport Beach 20: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Newport Beach 15: Nashville leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Newport Beach 46: Nashville leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Nashville
46match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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.

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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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NashvilleNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleNewport Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation182 m3 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 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

MeasureNashvilleNewport Beach
City population689,44785,239
People per km²506622
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.