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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Mombasa?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mombasa’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, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Mombasa 60: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Mombasa 74: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Mombasa 45: Da Nang leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Mombasa 45: Da Nang leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Mombasa 30: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Mombasa 35: Da Nang leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Mombasa 70: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Mombasa 22: Mombasa leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Mombasa 40: Da Nang leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Mombasa.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Mombasa
50match

Wins on culture and sights and 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

Mombasa in July

28 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Mombasa 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). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangMombasa
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyDong (VND)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation19 m50 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangMombasa
City population2,819,9001,208,333
People per km²2384,100
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.