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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Edinburgh?

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
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Edinburgh for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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, Edinburgh 22: Da Nang leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Edinburgh 53: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Edinburgh 75: Da Nang leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Da Nang and Edinburgh are level on 62.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Edinburgh 30: Da Nang leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Edinburgh 34: Da Nang leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Edinburgh.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Da Nang
58match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Edinburgh
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangEdinburgh
Official languageVietnameseEnglish
CurrencyDong (VND)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112 or 999
Elevation19 m47 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangEdinburgh
City population2,819,900488,050
People per km²2381,884
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.