Da Nang Flooding: Which Areas and Streets Flood in Heavy Rain

Since 2023, Da Nang flood reports have named streets in Hải Châu, Thanh Khê, Sơn Trà, Liên Chiểu and Cẩm Lệ, plus central streets with no area stated. Some spots flood at 25–30 mm/hour of rain and 9 areas at 40–50 mm/hour; storms peak October–December.

At 6:30 a.m. on 14 October 2023, Da Nang’s disaster-prevention command reported rainfall at the Hồ Hố Cau gauge station in Hòa Vang reaching 285 mm. Nguyễn Văn Linh, Tôn Đức Thắng and Tân Trào streets were flooded, along with Hàm Nghi, Quang Trung and Nam Trân, while a low-lying section of Mẹ Suốt street in Hòa Khánh Nam ward, Liên Chiểu area, also went under.

That storm is one of several dated flood reports this guide draws on. Every street below is grouped by the area a report explicitly states it’s in — Hải Châu, Thanh Khê, Sơn Trà, Ngũ Hành Sơn, Liên Chiểu and Cẩm Lệ — with a separate list for streets a report names without stating an area.

How much rain floods a street in Da Nang

Da Nang’s Department of Construction has given the city’s own rainfall thresholds. Around Núi Thành street, the Lê Duẩn – Hoàng Hoa Thám intersection, Hà Huy Tập, Trần Cao Vân and the Lê Tấn Trung street area, flooding can appear once rainfall intensity reaches about 25–30 mm/hour. Once rainfall reaches about 40–50 mm/hour, flooding begins to appear at 9 areas across the city. On 5 July 2025, an hour of unusually intense rain overwhelmed the box culvert on Trần Xuân Lê street that drains the airport catchment through the Trần Can outlet, causing flooding that receded quickly once the rain eased. City leadership has also directed flood-prevention units to keep response scenarios ready for rainfall of 100–200 mm/hour, based on the city’s digital map system.

Da Nang’s flood season

Typhoon and tropical-depression activity affecting the north-central coast, including Da Nang, tends to concentrate from October to December, in the Trung Trung Bộ and Nam Trung Bộ regions, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. Most of the dated reports below fall in that window — mid-October, late October, early November — though heavy rain in July and September has also flooded streets.

Hải Châu

The 14 October 2023 rapid report listed Hải Châu as already clear of floodwater at the time of the report.

Thanh Khê

Sơn Trà

Ngũ Hành Sơn

No dated news report or official list in this pack names a specific flooded street in Ngũ Hành Sơn. The same 14 October 2023 rapid report found the area already dry.

Liên Chiểu

Cẩm Lệ

Streets reported without an area

These streets appear in the same official lists and dated news reports, but no quote names which of the six areas they’re in.

Heavy rain on the morning of 18 September 2024 caused localised flooding on many streets in central Da Nang; a published list of 10 flood hotspots that day included the locations below, none tied to a stated area.

Official flood-warning channels

Da Nang runs a live flood-monitoring system residents can check directly. As of September 2024, the city’s online flood map at muangap.danang.gov.vn drew on 44 rain-gauge stations. By October 2025, the system covered 82 rain-gauge stations, 8 river water-level stations and 56 automatic flood-warning towers, with data updated 24/7.

For storm forecasts and disaster warnings, official guidance points residents to nchmf.gov.vn and kttvttb.vn, the Facebook page “Thông tin phòng chống thiên tai Đà Nẵng”, and vrain.vn for live rainfall tracking.

Drainage upgrades and city response

City leadership has inspected trouble spots directly: the chairman’s working group made a surprise inspection of 7 flood hotspots in the city centre. Some fixes are already in place — a phase-2 upgrade of the Ông Ích Khiêm pump station has raised its capacity to 25 m³/second, and an underground drainage culvert on Phùng Hưng street has been completed. The city has also ordered regular dredging and maintenance of drainage culverts, manholes and water-collection channels. Separately, outside the six areas this guide covers, authorities have told residents along the Túy Loan and Cu Đê rivers in Hòa Vang to watch for landslide and flash-flood risk.

For more on daily life and practicalities in Da Nang, see the living in Da Nang guides.

Not confirmed: A single official, dated, area-by-area count of flood-prone points is absent from this pack; a widely circulated per-area figure lacks a verifiable quote and is not used here. The area for several recurring flood streets — Hàm Nghi, Quang Trung, Lê Duẩn, Trần Cao Vân, Đông Đa, Nguyễn Công Hoan, Nguyễn Văn Tạo, the Thạc Gián–Vĩnh Trung/Hải Hồ/Nguyễn Nhàn cluster, Tôn Đức Thắng, Ông Ích Khiêm and Phùng Hưng — has no fetchable source and is left unstated. Yên Thế and Bắc Sơn streets appear in reports that group them with Liên Chiểu-area streets, and a separate source places a Yên Thế–Bắc Sơn project in Cẩm Lệ area; this conflict stays unresolved.

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