Da Nang · Sports & events

The city's V.League side plays at Hoa Xuan Stadium across the river; the season now runs from autumn through to the following summer and tickets are cheap.

An August road race along the beachfront boulevard, started before dawn, with half and shorter distances and a large foreign field.

Competing national pyrotechnic teams fire over the Han River across several weekends in early summer; the bridges and both banks are free vantage points.

Volleyball nets, đá cầu circles and swimming clubs take the sand from about five each morning; small surf arrives roughly September to December.