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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Sao Paulo?

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
  • families
  • day trips

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’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, Sao Paulo 42: Newport Beach leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Sao Paulo 48: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Sao Paulo 47: Newport Beach leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Sao Paulo 52: Newport Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Sao Paulo 44: Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Sao Paulo 25: Newport Beach leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife 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

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachSao Paulo

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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachSao Paulo
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation3 m760 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachSao Paulo
City population85,23911,451,999
People per km²6227,519
Museums within 10 km490
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.