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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Tangier?

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
  • beaches
  • shopping

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

Choose Tangier for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Tangier 30: Newport Beach leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Tangier 55: Newport Beach leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Tangier 35: Newport Beach leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Tangier 42: Newport Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Tangier 28: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Tangier 50: Tangier 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 Tangier.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Tangier
49match

Wins on prices 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachTangier

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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachTangier
Official language-Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation3 m56 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachTangier
City population85,2391,275,428
People per km²6226,393
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.