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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Victoria Falls?

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 Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Newport Beach leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Victoria Falls 24: Newport Beach leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Victoria Falls 12: Newport Beach leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Victoria Falls 8: Newport Beach leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Victoria Falls 22: Newport Beach leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Victoria Falls 38: Newport Beach leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Victoria Falls 18: Newport Beach leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Victoria Falls 10: Newport Beach leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Victoria Falls 34: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Victoria Falls.

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.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachVictoria Falls
Official language-English, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation3 m961 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachVictoria Falls
City population85,23933,060
People per km²622-
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.