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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Fethiye?

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
  • food and drink
  • wellness

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Fethiye’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, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Fethiye 45: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Fethiye 35: Da Nang leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Fethiye 42: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Fethiye 76: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Fethiye 60: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Fethiye 50: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Fethiye 38: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Fethiye 62: Da Nang leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Fethiye 15: Da Nang leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Fethiye 55: Da Nang leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Fethiye.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

Fethiye
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Fethiye in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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

Fethiye's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Fethiye 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangFethiye
Official languageVietnameseTurkish
CurrencyDong (VND)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation19 m0 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangFethiye
City population2,819,900182,200
People per km²238-
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.