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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Oaxaca?

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 Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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. Newport Beach 70, Oaxaca 5: Newport Beach leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Oaxaca 62: Newport Beach leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Oaxaca 65: Newport Beach leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Oaxaca 40: Newport Beach leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach and Oaxaca are level on 62.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Oaxaca 38: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachOaxaca

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachOaxaca
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m1,555 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachOaxaca
City population85,239258,913
People per km²6223,028
Museums within 10 km410
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.