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The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Da Nang or Zadar?

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
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Zadar for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Da Nang 67, Zadar 45: Da Nang leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Da Nang 38, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Da Nang 44, Zadar 38: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Da Nang 72, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Da Nang 80, Zadar 70: Da Nang leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Da Nang 62, Zadar 55: Da Nang leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Da Nang 38, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Da Nang 40, Zadar 27: Da Nang leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Da Nang 90, Zadar 52: Da Nang leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Da Nang 20, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Da Nang 64, Zadar 35: Da Nang leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Da Nang and Zadar.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Zadar
51match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °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

Zadar 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDa NangZadar
Official languageVietnameseCroatian
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation19 m5 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDa NangZadar
City population2,819,90070,779
People per km²238-
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.