Best time to visit Hội An

Vietnam · Southeast Asia

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Hội An

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Go in Mar or Apr — 30C max, 2 rainy days. Feb is the next best.

Dry season: Mar–Jun, 6 or fewer rainy days a month.

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Things to do in Hội An

The Marble Mountains 9 km south of Da Nang, well worth a morning or afternoon trip from Hoi An.
Japanese Covered Bridge The bridge was constructed in the early 1600s by the Japanese community…
Cham Islands UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An 9 nautical miles offshore.
Museum of Trade Ceramics The dusty, unlabeled displays of broken pottery are eminently forgettable…
Museum of Sa Huynh Culture The museum's main collection consists of pottery and urns from the 1st and 2nd centuries.
My Son Best done as an early morning half-day trip from Hoi An by motorbike, private car…

Tours and tickets in Hội An

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Hoi An), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	24°	13d	85%	7.0h	okbusy	busier than usual
Feb	25°	7d	86%	8.5h	okbusy	busier than usual
Mar	28°	4d	86%	10.0h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Apr	30°	2d	83%	10.6h	sweet spot	30C max, 2 rainy days
May	32°	5d	80%	11.0h	ok	32C max, 5 rainy days
Jun	35°	5d	73%	11.2h	avoid	extreme heat: 13 days over 35C
Jul	34°	8d	75%	10.1h	ok	34C max, 8 rainy days
Aug	34°	8d	73%	10.3h	avoid	extreme heat: 10 days over 35C
Sep	31°	14d	83%	9.5h	ok	31C max, 14 rainy days
Oct	28°	18d	86%	7.4h	avoid	monsoon: 18 rainy days, 528mm
Nov	27°	17d	85%	6.8h	avoid	monsoon: 17 rainy days, 423mm
Dec	24°	20d	85%	5.2h	avoid	monsoon: 20 rainy days, 337mm

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the Ancient Town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from January to March; quietest in May, June and September.

Then and now

Hội An's June days now average 34.6°C, 2.6°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 7 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	23.3°	25.3°	27.5°	30.4°	31.7°	32.1°	32.4°	32.1°	30.0°	27.9°	25.8°	23.4°
2017–26	24.1°	25.1°	27.6°	30.3°	32.4°	34.6°	33.5°	34.0°	30.9°	28.3°	26.8°	24.5°
Change	+0.8°	-0.2°	+0.1°	-0.1°	+0.7°	+2.6°	+1.1°	+1.9°	+0.9°	+0.4°	+1.0°	+1.1°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

Fly into Da Nang (DAD), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Da Nang.

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

How far Hội An is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

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.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Cards work in hotels, malls and tourist places; carry cash for street food, markets and small shops. Most shops show a VietQR code, which some Asian bank and wallet apps can now scan.
UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
Tipping — Not expected, though welcome in tourist places. Carry small notes so a taxi driver cannot keep the change.

Getting around Hội An

From Da Nang airport, the Hai Van Bus runs to Hội An (the Cửa Đại car park) from 07:30 to 16:00 daily for 120,000 dong a trip, from pillar 2 outside Terminal 1 arrivals or pillars 7 and 8 outside Terminal 2.

Apps — Rides: Green SM, Grab, Be. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: Zalo, WhatsApp. Green SM, the electric taxi and motorbike app, was called Xanh SM until April 2026, so older signs and guides use that name.

The centre of Hoi An is very small and pedestrian-friendly, so you will be walking around most of the time. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Hoi An, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

Emergency — police 113 · ambulance 115 · fire 114. The emergency lines answer in Vietnamese only.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Hội An in pictures

Hội An, Ancient Town, 2020 01 CN 10 — i

Steffen Schmitz (more photos), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hội An, Ancient Town, 2020 01 CN 01 — i

Steffen Schmitz (more photos), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Văn chỉ Minh Hương (Hội An) 2024 img 02 — i

Chainwit., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hội An 2024 Ba Mu Temple Gate (Tam quan chùa Bà Mụ) img 02 — i

Chainwit., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Hội An is like

Hoi An (Vietnamese: Hội An) is a beautiful city in Vietnam about 30 km to the south of Da Nang. The Old Town of Hoi An is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: The Old Town, with its historical architecture and very walkable streets filled with shops and restaurants, is at its best at night, when the activity along the river front is lit by the soft light of silk lanterns. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Diving – Cham Islands is popular for scuba diving and snorkelling. Cooking lessons – Offered at several restaurants around town. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: The nearest airport is Da Nang (DAD IATA), which has domestic connections from Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang, Can Tho, and Da Lat and some international flights from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Singapore, Siem Reap… More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe: Hoi An regularly floods during November. Visitors who plan to arrive during one of their floods should book ahead. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Hoi An, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

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Hội An is in Vietnam, Southeast Asia. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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