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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Newport Beach?

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
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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, Newport Beach 70: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Newport Beach 50: Da Nang leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Newport Beach 20: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Newport Beach 33: Da Nang leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Newport Beach 66: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Newport Beach 70: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Newport Beach 20: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Newport Beach 15: Da Nang leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Newport Beach 46: Newport Beach leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Newport Beach 44: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Newport Beach.

Your match

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Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangNewport Beach
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation19 m3 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangNewport Beach
City population2,819,90085,239
People per km²238622
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.