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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License.

Bodrum 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 Bodrum for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Da Nang for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Bodrum and Da Nang are level on 80.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Da Nang 67: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Da Nang 38: Bodrum leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Da Nang 44: Bodrum leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Da Nang 72: Da Nang leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Da Nang 62: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Da Nang 38: Bodrum leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Da Nang 40: Bodrum leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Da Nang 90: Da Nang leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Da Nang 20: Bodrum leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Da Nang 64: Da Nang leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Da Nang.

Your match

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

Bodrum
55match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bodrum in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum 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. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBodrumDa Nang
Official languageTurkishVietnamese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Dong (VND)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation10 m19 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumDa Nang
City population175,0002,819,900
People per km²314238
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.