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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Taipei?

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

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

Choose Taipei for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Taipei’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, Taipei 40: Newport Beach leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Taipei 88: Taipei leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Taipei 68: Taipei leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Taipei 58: Taipei leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Taipei 78: Taipei leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Taipei 76: Taipei leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Taipei 72: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Taipei 86: Taipei leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Taipei 70: Taipei leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Taipei 66: Taipei leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Taipei 55: Taipei leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Taipei 80: Taipei leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Taipei.

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.

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on getting around 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
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachTaipei

Where the figures come from

Taipei has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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). Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachTaipei
Official language-Taiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialect
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911110 or 112 or 119
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centre
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachTaipei
City population85,2392,429,429
People per km²6228,938
Museums within 10 km469
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.