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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose, San Jose, Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa RicaThe Metropolitan Cathedral of San Jose

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; San Jose, Costa Rica by Bernard Gagnon, CC0.

Da Nang or San Jose, Costa Rica?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose San Jose, Costa Rica for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose, Costa Rica’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, San Jose, Costa Rica 12: Da Nang leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, San Jose, Costa Rica 42: Da Nang leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang and San Jose, Costa Rica are level on 38.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, San Jose, Costa Rica 40: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, San Jose, Costa Rica 78: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, San Jose, Costa Rica 52: Da Nang leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, San Jose, Costa Rica 44: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, San Jose, Costa Rica 30: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, San Jose, Costa Rica 36: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, San Jose, Costa Rica 54: Da Nang leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, San Jose, Costa Rica 38: San Jose, Costa Rica leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, San Jose, Costa Rica 28: Da Nang leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and San Jose, Costa Rica.

Your match

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

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

San Jose, Costa Rica
41match

Wins on live music and the arts and 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

San Jose, Costa Rica in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
173 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

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Where the figures come from

San Jose, Costa Rica's station stands 241 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). San Jose, Costa Rica: 1991-2020 normals, Juan Santamaria (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangSan Jose, Costa Rica
Official languageVietnameseSpanish
CurrencyDong (VND)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation19 m1,161 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsJuan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)16 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangSan Jose, Costa Rica
City population2,819,900335,007
People per km²2387,511
Museums within 10 km29
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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.