This weekend
in Da Nang.

Vietnam's national weather service put out a heat bulletin at eight on Tuesday evening, 29 September. For Da Nang it expects 35 to 36 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday, and above 36 in some places.

From Friday 2 October, it says, the widespread heat ends from Nghe An down to Da Nang. It puts the risk at level 1, the lowest it gives.

Day by day for Da Nang, from the same service. Thursday 1: sunny and hot, 36 degrees down to 26. Friday 2: sunny and hot, 35 down to 25.

Saturday 3 and Sunday 4: cloudy with no rain, 34 down to 26. Monday 5: cloudy with no rain, 32 down to 26. Tuesday 6 to Friday 9: showers and thunder, highs of 31 and 32.

Its ten day outlook, from the same day, adds that a few places can still get a shower or a thunderstorm in the evening or at night. Scattered showers start from about the night of Monday 5 October.

A second forecast agrees. Open-Meteo, read on Wednesday morning, has almost no rain from Thursday to Monday and steady rain from Tuesday. It puts the highs a few degrees lower, at 31 to 32.

No storm is coming our way, and our own weather service had no storm bulletin for this coast.

On Tuesday the United States navy typhoon centre had one storm in the west Pacific, Surigae, south of Japan. It was then about 3,100 kilometres north east of Da Nang.

It is moving north east, away from us, and is forecast to stop being a tropical storm on Thursday.

On Wednesday morning the same centre started warnings on a new one, Tropical Depression 26W, about 4,700 kilometres east of us.

It is forecast to move west and then turn north far out in the Pacific, about 4,000 kilometres from Da Nang, and to grow into a typhoon there. Its forecast track does not come toward Vietnam.

We checked the forecast on Tuesday 29 September and the storms again on Wednesday 30 September. The storm season here runs to November and the weather changes fast, so look again on the morning you go out, at nchmf.gov.vn.

The An Hai Festival has been on at East Sea Park since 18 September, and it ends this weekend. It is the second An Hai Festival this year. The first ran from 6 to 14 June.

The theme is fireworks and the taste of the sea, with local food, local products, shows and folk games.

The first of the three shows was on 26 September, and big crowds came to watch. The ward, which runs the festival, has not published a start time for either night.

Saturday and Sunday are forecast cloudy with no rain. The weather service says a few places can still get a shower in the evening.

Plans with a name, a place and a day. We checked every line on Tuesday 29 September.

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Also on Saturday and Sunday, the Son Tra Innovation Fest runs at Wyndham Danang Golden Bay, 1 Le Van Duyet. More than 20 tech companies bring robots and AI for you to try. Entry is free.

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Oktoberfest at Furama Resort on Friday 2 October is sold out. That is what the organiser's ticket page showed when we checked on Tuesday 29 September.

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Last week we wrote that there was still time to book. That is no longer true.

The Miss Heritage Global final will not happen in Da Nang. It was planned for the evening of 7 October.

On 29 September the company running the contest in Vietnam wrote to the city's culture department. It said the contest will not go ahead as announced, including everything planned for 2 to 8 October in Hue and Da Nang.

Both were on our events page, and the page is now updated.

The city wants Marble Mountains on the World Heritage list, and it has asked UNESCO for help.

On 27 September, in Hanoi, a vice chair of the city met the director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. They talked about a bid for Marble Mountains as a mixed World Heritage site, which means listed for both its culture and its nature.

On culture, the city points to traces of the Sa Huynh, Champa and Dai Viet people who lived and prayed there, and to the Non Nuoc stone carving craft.

It also points to 78 Han Nom texts cut into the cliffs and caves, which UNESCO listed as Asia Pacific documentary heritage in 2022. On nature, it points to six marble hills standing in coastal sand dunes, with their caves.

The bid has three stages. The first is a summary report to the culture ministry, so that it can ask the Prime Minister to let the city put Marble Mountains on the list of places Vietnam plans to put forward to UNESCO.

A new factory is coming, and the city has asked it to hire and train local workers first.

On the morning of Tuesday 29 September the Korean company HS Hyosung started building it at the Tam Thang Expanded Industrial Park, in Thang Truong commune. It will make yarn, carpets for cars and other carpets.

The site covers 11 hectares and the total investment is 2,606.1 billion dong, about 100 million US dollars.

The first stage, 80 million dollars, is planned to start work between October and December 2027. The second, 20 million dollars, is planned for between April and June 2029. On the same day, Hyosung and VinFast signed an agreement on supplying car parts.