Ho Chi Minh City or Phuket?
962 km apart, in Vietnam and Thailand. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.
Month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh City | 31° 3d | 32° 2d | 33° 3d | 34° 8d | 33° 22d | 31° 24d | 31° 27d | 31° 26d | 30° 27d | 30° 25d | 30° 16d | 30° 7d |
| Phuket | 29° 7d | 29° 4d | 30° 6d | 30° 14d | 29° 24d | 29° 20d | 29° 19d | 29° 20d | 28° 23d | 28° 25d | 28° 20d | 29° 9d |
| Ho Chi Minh City, fare from Bengaluru | — | ₹30,850 | ₹27,510 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ₹35,989 | — | ₹56,432 |
| Phuket, fare from Bengaluru | ₹37,801 | ₹31,678 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ₹25,884 | ₹38,456 | ₹31,118 | — |
| Pick | Ho Chi Minh City | either | Ho Chi Minh City | Phuket | neither | neither | neither | neither | neither | neither | Ho Chi Minh City | Phuket |
Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.
Before you go
- Cost of living — Ho Chi Minh City: very cheap, about 29% of the United States; Phuket: very cheap, about 31% of the United States.
- Currency — Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnamese đồng; Phuket: Baht.
- Plugs — Ho Chi Minh City: type A and C and F and G, 220 V; Phuket: type A and B and C and F, 220 V.
- Driving — Ho Chi Minh City: on the right; Phuket: on the left.
- Travel advice — Ho Chi Minh City: no advice against travel; Phuket: avoid all but essential travel to parts.
Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.
Between them
962 km as the crow flies, about 2h 05m in the air.Nonstop, about 2 a day · VietJetAir, Vietnam Airlines. By road, 1,714 km and about 21h 12m.
The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.
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Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.