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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Newport Beach leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 78 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachTokyo

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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachTokyo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m6 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachTokyo
City population85,23914,264,798
People per km²6226,501
Museums within 10 km4192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.