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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Luxor?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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, Luxor 6: Da Nang leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Luxor 30: Da Nang leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Luxor 10: Da Nang leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Luxor 32: Da Nang leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Luxor 62: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Luxor 30: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Luxor 35: Da Nang leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Luxor 25: Da Nang leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Da Nang and Luxor are level on 90.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Luxor 10: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Luxor 28: Da Nang leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Luxor.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on 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

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Luxor 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). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangLuxor
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 m89 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangLuxor
City population2,819,900202,232
People per km²238486
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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.