VacationSelector
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Newport Beach or Yokohama?

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

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Newport Beach leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Newport Beach 50, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Newport Beach 20, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Newport Beach 33, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Newport Beach and Yokohama are level on 66.
Day trips. Newport Beach 70, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Newport Beach 80, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Newport Beach 20, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 67 points.
Shopping & style. Newport Beach 62, Yokohama 60: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Newport Beach 15, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Newport Beach 46, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Newport Beach 44, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Newport Beach and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and prices 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
Newport BeachYokohama

Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNewport BeachYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m24 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNewport BeachYokohama
City population85,2393,757,630
People per km²6228,585
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Newport Beach or Yokohama somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.