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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License.

Da Nang or Pattaya?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Pattaya for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’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, Pattaya 66: Da Nang leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Pattaya 58: Da Nang leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Pattaya 30: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Pattaya 76: Pattaya leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Pattaya 40: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Pattaya 52: Da Nang leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Pattaya 55: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Pattaya 36: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Pattaya 42: Pattaya leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Pattaya 84: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Pattaya 30: Pattaya leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Pattaya 58: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Pattaya.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Pattaya
52match

Wins on nightlife 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

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya 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.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangPattaya
Official languageVietnameseThai
CurrencyDong (VND)Baht (THB)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation19 m35 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangPattaya
City population2,819,900119,532
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. 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.