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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Newport Beach or San Juan?

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
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose San Juan for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, San Juan 52: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, San Juan 58: Newport Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, San Juan 38: San Juan leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, San Juan 50: Newport Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, San Juan 38: San Juan leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, San Juan 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 San Juan.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on families and day trips with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachSan Juan

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). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachSan Juan
Official language-Spanish, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m3 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachSan Juan
City population85,239342,259
People per km²6222,847
Museums within 10 km418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.