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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License.

Newport Beach or Strasbourg?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Strasbourg for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’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, Strasbourg 10: Newport Beach leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Strasbourg 70: Strasbourg leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Strasbourg 40: Strasbourg leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Strasbourg 62: Newport Beach leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Strasbourg 80: Strasbourg leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Strasbourg 66: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Strasbourg 79: Strasbourg leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Strasbourg 52: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Strasbourg 44: Strasbourg leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Strasbourg 56: Strasbourg leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Strasbourg 55: Strasbourg leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Strasbourg.

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.

Strasbourg
Best match
57match

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

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachStrasbourg

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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachStrasbourg
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m132 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachStrasbourg
City population85,239293,771
People per km²6223,752
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.