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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Newport Beach or Osaka?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Osaka for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Newport Beach leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Osaka 58: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 70 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Osaka.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachOsaka

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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachOsaka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachOsaka
City population85,2392,751,862
People per km²62212,340
Museums within 10 km444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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.