Best CA Cities For New Year's Resolutions

CALIFORNIA — Although New Year's resolutions are easy to make, what are your chances of actually keeping them in 2020? Your chances are actually really good if you live in some California cities, according to a new report by WalletHub.

The personal finance website recently released its "2020's Best & Worst Cities For Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions" rankings. San Diego ranked No. 1 overall among cities to help you follow through on your New Year's resolutions.

WalletHub compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 57 key indicators of favorable conditions for achieving one's New Year's goals, including the access to exercise opportunities, the debt-to-income ratio for residents and the unemployment rate.

Each relevant metric was then listed with its corresponding weight, and the cities were subsequently graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the best possible urban environment for keeping one's New Year's resolutions.

San Diego ranked as the No. 1 city in the nation for keeping your New Year's resolutions, according to WalletHub, followed by Scottsdale, Arizona, and San Francisco, California.

The worst U.S. city in which to keep a New Year's resolution? That weak-willed honor went to Gulfport, Mississippi.

Keeping resolutions can be difficult "because the goals aren't specific, the ability or resources are missing, commitment to the goal is absent, and because they don't monitor their progress to see success," said Verlin Hinsz, a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University who was referenced in the WalletHub report.

Here are the top 15 cities in the U.S. for keeping your New Year's resolutions in 2020, according to WalletHub:

1. San Diego, California: 68.00
2. Scottsdale, Arizona: 67.93
3. San Francisco, California: 67.35
4. Seattle, Washington: 67.22
5. San Jose, California: 66.20
6. Irvine, California: 65.84
7. Austin, Texas: 64.95
8. Plano, Texas: 64.02
9. Salt Lake City, Utah: 63.98
10. Fremont, California: 63.44
11. Atlanta, Georgia: 63.40
12. Huntington Beach, California: 63.33
13. Overland Park, Kansas: 63.14
14. Portland, Oregon: 62.96
15. Raleigh, North Carolina: 62.58

See how California cities ranked, from best to worst, below. National rankings are in parenthesis.

1. San Diego (1)
2. San Francisco (3)
3. San Jose (5)
4. Irvine (6)
5. Fremont (10)
6. Huntington Beach (12)
7. Los Angeles (20)
8. Sacramento (39)
9. Rancho Cucamonga (53)
10. Oakland (54)
11. Santa Clarita (61)
12. Garden Grove (66)
13. Anaheim (72)
14. Oceanside (75)
15. Chula Vista (80)
16. Modesto (86)
17. Santa Rosa (87)
18. Long Beach (92)
19. Glendale (97)
20. Riverside (110)
21. Fontana (124)
22. Bakersfield (126)
23. Santa Ana (133)
24. Ontario (139)
25. Oxnard (140)
26. Fresno (148)
27. Stockton (150)
28. Moreno Valley (156)
29. San Bernardino (167)

The full report in available on WalletHub.