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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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. Cardiff 30, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Da Nang 67: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Da Nang 38: Cardiff leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Da Nang 44: Cardiff leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Da Nang 72: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Da Nang 62: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Da Nang 38: Cardiff leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Da Nang 40: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Da Nang 90: Da Nang leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Da Nang 20: Cardiff leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Da Nang 64: Da Nang leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Da Nang.

Your match

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

Cardiff
52match

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

Da Nang
Best match
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.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 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

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffDa Nang
Official languageEnglishVietnamese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Dong (VND)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation41 m19 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffDa Nang
City population383,5362,819,900
People per km²2,734238
Museums within 10 km92
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.