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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Ocho Rios?

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
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

Ocho Rios does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’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, Ocho Rios 78: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Ocho Rios 42: Da Nang leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Ocho Rios 16: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Ocho Rios 28: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang and Ocho Rios are level on 72.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Ocho Rios 56: Da Nang leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Ocho Rios 60: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Ocho Rios 24: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Ocho Rios 26: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Ocho Rios 42: Da Nang leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Ocho Rios 14: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Ocho Rios 50: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios 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). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangOcho Rios
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyDong (VND)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation19 m59 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangOcho Rios
City population2,819,90016,671
People per km²238-
Museums within 10 km20
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. 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.