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Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

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

Newport Beach or Winter Park, Colorado?

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
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Newport Beach leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Newport Beach leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach 66, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Newport Beach leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Newport Beach leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Newport Beach leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado 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 Winter Park, Colorado.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

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

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Newport BeachWinter Park, Colorado

Where the figures come from

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachWinter Park, Colorado
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m2,759 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachWinter Park, Colorado
City population85,2391,033
People per km²62224
Museums within 10 km40
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.