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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Toulouse?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Toulouse for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Toulouse’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, Toulouse 10: Newport Beach leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Toulouse 66: Toulouse leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Toulouse 64: Toulouse leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Toulouse 56: Toulouse leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Toulouse 58: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Toulouse 72: Toulouse leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Toulouse 62: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Toulouse 70: Toulouse leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Toulouse 50: Newport Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Toulouse 46: Toulouse leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Toulouse 58: Toulouse leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Toulouse 27: Newport Beach leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Toulouse.

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.

Toulouse
Best match
53match

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

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachToulouse

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). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachToulouse
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m115 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachToulouse
City population85,239514,819
People per km²6224,352
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.