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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Newport Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Puerto Princesa 38: Newport Beach leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Puerto Princesa 22: Puerto Princesa leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Puerto Princesa 26: Newport Beach leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Puerto Princesa 12: Newport Beach leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Puerto Princesa 45: Newport Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Puerto Princesa 30: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Puerto Princesa 20: Newport Beach leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Puerto Princesa 10: Newport Beach leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Puerto Princesa 40: Newport Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
Best match
48match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachPuerto Princesa

Where the figures come from

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachPuerto Princesa
Official language-English, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m98 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachPuerto Princesa
City population85,239316,384
People per km²622133
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.