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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Newport Beach or The Hague?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose The Hague for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’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, The Hague 38: Newport Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, The Hague 48: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, The Hague 52: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, The Hague 72: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, The Hague 55: Newport Beach leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, The Hague 35: The Hague leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, The Hague 45: The Hague leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and The Hague.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

The Hague
Best match
56match

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

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

The Hague 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.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachThe Hague
Official language-Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m1 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachThe Hague
City population85,239548,320
People per km²6225,589
Museums within 10 km454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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.