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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Da Nang or Kyoto?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’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, Kyoto 15: Da Nang leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Kyoto 35: Da Nang leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Kyoto 70: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Kyoto 68: Kyoto leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Kyoto 50: Da Nang leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Kyoto 70: Kyoto 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 Kyoto.

Your match

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

Da Nang
58match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangKyoto
Official languageVietnameseJapanese
CurrencyDong (VND)Yen (JPY)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 110, fire 119
Elevation19 m51 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangKyoto
City population2,819,9001,463,723
People per km²2381,768
Museums within 10 km277
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.