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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Perth?

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

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Perth for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Perth leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Perth 58: Perth leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Perth 42: Perth leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Perth 42: Perth leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Perth 72: Perth leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Perth 48: Newport Beach leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Perth 74: Newport Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Perth 55: Perth leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Perth 44: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Perth 28: Perth leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Perth 50: Perth leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Perth 38: Newport Beach 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 Perth.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

Perth
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around 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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachPerth

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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachPerth
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911000
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachPerth
City population85,2392,141,834
People per km²622334
Museums within 10 km415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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. 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.