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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License.

Bethany Beach 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 Bethany Beach for

  • families

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

Choose Da Nang for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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. Bethany Beach 72, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, Da Nang 67: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, Da Nang 38: Da Nang leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, Da Nang 44: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, Da Nang 72: Da Nang leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, Da Nang 62: Bethany Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, Da Nang 38: Da Nang leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach 28, Da Nang 40: Da Nang leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, Da Nang 90: Da Nang leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, Da Nang 20: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, Da Nang 64: Da Nang leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and Da Nang.

Your match

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

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on families with your weighting.

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach 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. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachDa Nang
Official language-Vietnamese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Dong (VND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation3 m19 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachDa Nang
City population9542,819,900
People per km²318238
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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. 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.