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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Tallinn?

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
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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, Tallinn 28: Newport Beach leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Tallinn 55: Newport Beach leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Tallinn 58: Newport Beach leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Tallinn 60: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Tallinn 40: Newport Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Tallinn.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachTallinn

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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachTallinn
Official language-Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m28 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachTallinn
City population85,239457,572
People per km²6222,871
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.