Utilities in Da Nang are first of all electricity, and that is the bill that surprises people: a one-bedroom with air conditioning burns 300-500 kWh in a summer month, and the landlord may bill them at the state tariff of 1,984 to 3,460 dong, or at their own flat rate of 3,500-4,000. The difference on the bill is up to one and a half times. Below is how the tariffs work, what to write into the lease and how to check that nothing extra was added. Water and internet are small change by comparison, but they are here too.

Electricity

EVN's residential tariff is tiered and, since 10 May 2025, looks like this, before VAT, under Ministry of Industry and Trade Decision 1279/QĐ-BCT:

Tier Monthly consumption Dong per kWh
1 0-50 kWh 1,984
2 51-100 2,050
3 101-200 2,380
4 201-300 2,998
5 301-400 3,350
6 above 400 3,460

How it works in practice. If the apartment has its own EVN contract and the meter is in your name, you pay by tier: 400 kWh comes to a little over a million dong before VAT, about $40. If the meter is shared by the building or held by the owner, they set their own price per kWh, most often 3,500-4,000 dong, and the same 400 kWh costs 1.4-1.6 million. That is legal if it is written in the lease, and pointless to argue about after signing; so the only moment when the electricity price is negotiable is before you sign. How to write it in is in our guide to the lease and deposit.

EVN has a rule specifically for rentals. If the lease is under 12 months and the owner cannot declare how many people live there, all consumption is billed at the tier 3 price, 2,380 dong per kWh. If the tenants are declared through temporary residence registration, every four people count as one household, and each household gets its own set of cheaper tiers. So the registration also shows up on the power bill when the meter is in the owner's name.

How much an apartment burns. Air conditioning is 70-80% of the bill. One bedroom unit through the night is about 8-10 kWh a day; two units day and night in July, 20-25. Hence 300-500 a month in summer and 100-200 in winter. The water heater, washing machine, fridge and everything else together use less than one air conditioner.

How to check a bill. Photograph the meter at move-in and put the reading in the handover report; photograph it again on the day the owner sends the bill. The difference multiplied by the price in the lease is the bill. If the owner sends an amount without readings, ask for the readings; a refusal is a warning sign.

Water

Dawaco's water tariff for urban households is 4,550 dong per cubic metre for the first 10 m³ per meter per month, 5,460 from 10 to 30 and 6,810 above 30, VAT included. That has applied since 1 January 2025 under city Decision 2967/QĐ-UBND; the wastewater charge is billed separately. On a meter, water for one or two people costs tens of thousands of dong a month, $1-3. Some owners charge a fixed amount for water or include it in the building fee; compare that amount with the meter before signing. Hot water comes from an electric heater, so there is no separate bill for it.

Internet and mobile

Fibre from FPT or Viettel: the basic 300 Mbps plan is 195,000 dong a month, about $7.50, and Viettel's gigabit plans are 240,000-280,000, per the operators' price lists for September 2026. FPT's installation is usually 299,000 with no deposit. Connection takes one to three days if the building has a line, and the contract is in your passport name. In some buildings internet is included in the rent or the building fee, and the router is already there. Mobile data: 125,000-150,000 a month for 4-7 GB a day, for example Viettel's SD135 at 135,000 with 5 GB a day, with the SIM registered to your passport at the operator's shop.

The building fee

In newer buildings it is called "phí quản lý", 5,000 to 20,000 dong per square metre per month: lifts, security, cleaning, pool, gym. In most of our leases it is inside the rent; if a listing shows it separately, for a 70 m² two-bedroom that is 350,000 to 1.4 million a month on top. Scooter parking is usually 50,000-150,000 a month, included or not according to the lease.

Gas and rubbish

Hobs in new buildings are induction; there is no gas. Older buildings and townhouses use bottled gas at 540,000-640,000 dong for a 12 kg cylinder in September 2026, which lasts a family two or three months. Rubbish collection is inside the building fee in apartment blocks; in townhouses it is a small monthly charge of a few tens of thousands of dong.

What to budget per month

A 2026 guide in dollars: a one-bedroom for one person in summer, $40-80 electricity, $2-6 water, $8 internet, $50-95 in all; a two-bedroom for a family, $80-150 electricity and $90-175 in all. Electricity halves in winter. The full monthly budget is built up in our cost of living guide.

What to write into the lease

  • The electricity price: EVN tariff or a fixed rate, and exactly which.
  • Who pays for water, internet and the building fee, and whether parking is included.
  • Meter readings on the move-in date in the handover report.
  • Payment procedure: by which day and against which document.
  • Who repairs the air conditioner and the water heater if they break by themselves.

What to check at the viewing: how many air conditioners, their age and the state of the filters, whether the apartment has its own meter; all of that is in the viewing checklist. Before the rainy season it is worth checking where the sockets are and whether the fuse box gets wet; that is in our rainy season guide. How the whole deal runs is on the how to rent page, and the apartments available now are on the apartments for rent page.

Rules, fees and tariffs in this text were checked against official sources on 27.09.2026; the links sit on the document numbers. This is not legal advice, so confirm your own case with a lawyer or the authority.