Weekly note
Ha Long Bay
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Photo by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low26°C
Feels like, afternoon38°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more16 · 304 mm
Humidity84%
Sunshine8.9 h/day
Daylight13.3 h/day
Days over 35°C1
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Bãi Cháy, Hạ Long, 43 km from the airport (VDO): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

July: about usual. Busiest in January, March and December; quietest in May and June.

Ha Long Bay in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 16 rainy days and 304 mm.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 84%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and C and F and G plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Vietnamese đồng. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Vietnam: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Ha Long Bay: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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