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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Ottawa?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Ottawa for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ottawa’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, Ottawa 35: Da Nang leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Ottawa 45: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Ottawa 62: Ottawa leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Ottawa 35: Da Nang leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Ottawa 68: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Ottawa 55: Da Nang leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Ottawa 68: Ottawa leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Ottawa 62: Ottawa leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang and Ottawa are level on 40.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Ottawa 40: Da Nang leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Ottawa 52: Ottawa leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Ottawa 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 Ottawa.

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.

Ottawa
51match

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

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Da NangOttawa

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangOttawa
Official languageVietnameseFrench, English
CurrencyDong (VND)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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 m70 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangOttawa
City population2,819,9001,017,449
People per km²238366
Museums within 10 km220
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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.