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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Puerto Princesa?

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

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • wellness

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Puerto Princesa 38: Da Nang leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Puerto Princesa 22: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Puerto Princesa 26: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Puerto Princesa 12: Da Nang leads by 68 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Puerto Princesa 45: Da Nang leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Puerto Princesa 30: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Puerto Princesa 20: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Puerto Princesa 78: Da Nang leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Puerto Princesa 10: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Puerto Princesa 40: Da Nang leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDa NangPuerto Princesa
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyDong (VND)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation19 m98 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-18 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangPuerto Princesa
City population2,819,900316,384
People per km²238133
Museums within 10 km21
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.