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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Da Nang for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Bologna 30, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Da Nang 67: Bologna leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Da Nang 38: Bologna leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Da Nang 44: Bologna leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Da Nang 72: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Da Nang 80: Bologna leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Da Nang 62: Da Nang leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Da Nang 38: Bologna leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Da Nang 40: Bologna leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Da Nang 90: Da Nang leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Da Nang 20: Bologna leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Da Nang 64: Da Nang leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Da Nang.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bologna
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Da Nang
58match

Wins on beaches 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.

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine 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

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaDa Nang
Official languageItalianVietnamese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dong (VND)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation54 m19 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaDa Nang
City population387,9712,819,900
People per km²2,754238
Museums within 10 km682
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.