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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Newport Beach or Palermo?

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

  • families
  • shopping
  • wellness

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

Choose Palermo for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Palermo 58: Palermo leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Palermo 44: Newport Beach leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Palermo 44: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Palermo 30: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Palermo.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on families and shopping with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

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). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachPalermo
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m14 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachPalermo
City population85,239630,167
People per km²6223,924
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.