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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Orlando?

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
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’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, Orlando 42: Da Nang leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Orlando 48: Da Nang leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Orlando 22: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Orlando 40: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Orlando 46: Da Nang leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Orlando 58: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Orlando 8: Da Nang leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Orlando 36: Da Nang leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Orlando 32: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Orlando.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Orlando
44match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangOrlando
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation19 m34 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangOrlando
City population2,819,900334,854
People per km²2381,086
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.