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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Dubrovnik?

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 Da Nang for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’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. Da Nang 80, Dubrovnik 74: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Dubrovnik 47: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Dubrovnik 37: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Dubrovnik 70: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Dubrovnik 66: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Dubrovnik 50: Da Nang leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Dubrovnik 60: Dubrovnik leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Dubrovnik 25: Da Nang leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Dubrovnik 28: Da Nang leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Dubrovnik 25: Dubrovnik leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Dubrovnik 32: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Dubrovnik.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Dubrovnik 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.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangDubrovnik
Official languageVietnameseCroatian
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation19 m10 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangDubrovnik
City population2,819,90041,562
People per km²238-
Museums within 10 km27
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.