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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Da Nang or Kotor?

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

  • wellness
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Kotor for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Da Nang leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Kotor 37: Da Nang leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Kotor 30: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Kotor 72: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Kotor 36: Da Nang leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Kotor 20: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Kotor 57: Da Nang leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang and Kotor are level on 20.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Kotor 24: Da Nang leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Kotor.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangKotor
Official languageVietnameseMontenegrin
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation19 m10 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangKotor
City population2,819,900562
People per km²238-
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.