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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Newport Beach or Valencia?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • shopping

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

Choose Valencia for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Valencia 60: Newport Beach leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach and Valencia are level on 70.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Valencia 75: Newport Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Valencia 57: Newport Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Valencia 42: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Valencia.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

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

Valencia
Best match
65match

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachValencia

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachValencia
Official language-Spanish
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 m15 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachValencia
City population85,239840,792
People per km²6226,242
Museums within 10 km445
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.