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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License.

Aspen or Da Nang?

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 Aspen for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Da Nang for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Da Nang’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. Aspen 6, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Da Nang 67: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Da Nang 38: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Da Nang 44: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Da Nang 72: Aspen leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Da Nang 62: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Da Nang 38: Aspen leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Da Nang 40: Aspen leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Da Nang 90: Da Nang leads by 85 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Da Nang 20: Aspen leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Da Nang 64: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Da Nang.

Your match

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

Aspen
43match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Aspen in July

27 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
33 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Da Nang in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Aspen 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. Aspen: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Aspen / Woody Creek (5.2 km from centre). Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenDa Nang
Official language-Vietnamese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Dong (VND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation2,405 m19 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAspenDa Nang
City population7,0042,819,900
People per km²700238
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.