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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Tromso?

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
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Tromso for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Newport Beach leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Tromso 36: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Tromso 27: Tromso leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Tromso 14: Newport Beach leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Tromso 45: Newport Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Tromso 15: Newport Beach leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Tromso 11: Newport Beach leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Tromso 32: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Tromso 38: Newport Beach 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 Tromso.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachTromso

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachTromso
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachTromso
City population85,23979,943
People per km²62232
Museums within 10 km48
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.