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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

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

Newport Beach or Tunis?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach and Tunis are level on 33.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Tunis 45: Newport Beach leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Tunis 38: Newport Beach leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Tunis 50: Newport Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 71 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Tunis 38: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Tunis.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachTunis

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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachTunis
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachTunis
City population85,239602,560
People per km²6222,834
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.