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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Paphos?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Paphos for

  • culture and sights
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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, Paphos 76: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Paphos 45: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Paphos 38: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Paphos 70: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Paphos 64: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Paphos 25: Da Nang leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Paphos 52: Da Nang leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Paphos 22: Paphos leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Paphos 42: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Paphos.

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.

Paphos
50match

Wins on culture and sights and families 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

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos 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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangPaphos
Official languageVietnameseTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation19 m72 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-17 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangPaphos
City population2,819,90035,961
People per km²2381,987
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.