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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud, Fes
FesThe blue gate of Bab Bou Jeloud

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Fes by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Fes?

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

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Fes for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Fes’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, Fes 5: Da Nang leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Fes 62: Da Nang leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Fes 80: Fes leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Fes 12: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Fes 52: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Fes 62: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Fes 22: Da Nang leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Fes 40: Fes leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Fes 68: Fes leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Fes 80: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Fes 32: Fes leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Fes 70: Fes leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Fes.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Fes
49match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Fes in July

36 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Fes's station stands 171 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Fes 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.

Fes's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Meknes.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Fes: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Fes-Sais (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangFes
Official languageVietnameseArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyDong (VND)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation19 m408 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsFes Saïss International Airport (FEZ)13 km from centre35 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangFes
City population2,819,9001,167,842
People per km²2383,650
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.