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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Muscat?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Muscat for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Muscat’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, Muscat 72: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Muscat 44: Da Nang leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Muscat 14: Da Nang leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Muscat 70: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Muscat 62: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Muscat 52: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Muscat 20: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Muscat 42: Muscat leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Muscat 45: Da Nang leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Muscat 55: Da Nang leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Muscat.

Your match

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Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Muscat
48match

Wins on live music and the arts and 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

Muscat in July

33 °Cdaytime high
30 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
31 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

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Where the figures come from

Muscat's sunshine is measured 32 km from the centre, at Seeb, International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangMuscat
Official languageVietnameseArabic
CurrencyDong (VND)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+4
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114968
Elevation19 m69 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangMuscat
City population2,819,9001,421,409
People per km²238406
Museums within 10 km210
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. 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.