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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Da Nang or Windhoek?

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
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Windhoek for

Windhoek does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Da Nang leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Windhoek 36: Da Nang leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Windhoek 30: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Windhoek 25: Da Nang leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Windhoek 52: Da Nang leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Windhoek 14: Da Nang leads by 66 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Windhoek 30: Da Nang leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Windhoek 22: Da Nang leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Windhoek 30: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Windhoek 62: Da Nang leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Windhoek 18: Da Nang leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Windhoek 30: Da Nang leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Windhoek.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangWindhoek
Official languageVietnameseEnglish
CurrencyDong (VND)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation19 m1,650 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangWindhoek
City population2,819,900486,169
People per km²23895
Museums within 10 km25
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.