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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Sorrento?

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
  • families

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’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, Sorrento 60: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Sorrento 60: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Sorrento 32: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Sorrento 28: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Sorrento 42: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Sorrento 38: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Sorrento 32: Da Nang leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang and Sorrento are level on 20.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Sorrento 48: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Sorrento.

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.

Sorrento
49match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sorrento 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.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangSorrento
Official languageVietnameseItalian
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation19 m50 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangSorrento
City population2,819,90015,407
People per km²2381,541
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.