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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Guadalajara?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Guadalajara for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Guadalajara’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, Guadalajara 5: Da Nang leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Guadalajara 75: Guadalajara leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Guadalajara 62: Guadalajara leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Guadalajara 68: Guadalajara leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Guadalajara 55: Da Nang leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Guadalajara 66: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Guadalajara 55: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Guadalajara 40: Guadalajara leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Guadalajara 78: Da Nang leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Guadalajara 35: Da Nang leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Guadalajara.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Guadalajara
55match

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

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDa NangGuadalajara
Official languageVietnameseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDong (VND)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation19 m1,536 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangGuadalajara
City population2,819,9001,385,621
People per km²2389,556
Museums within 10 km217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.