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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Hurghada?

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

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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, Hurghada 84: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Hurghada 34: Da Nang leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Hurghada 14: Da Nang leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Hurghada 40: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang and Hurghada are level on 72.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Hurghada 30: Da Nang leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Da Nang and Hurghada are level on 62.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Hurghada 22: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Hurghada 24: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Hurghada 80: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Hurghada 10: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Hurghada 44: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Hurghada.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

Hurghada
43match

Wins on beaches 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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Da NangHurghada

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangHurghada
Official languageVietnameseArabic
CurrencyDong (VND)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation19 m11 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangHurghada
City population2,819,900214,247
People per km²238-
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.