📷 Chainwit.· CC BY 4.0Phố cổ Hội An | Hoi An Ancient Town
About
Hội An is a ward of Da Nang, Vietnam. It is one of the 94 new wards, communes and special zones of the city following the reorganization in 2025.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hoi An, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
Why visit
Use Hoi An as a focused stop for markets, public squares, streets, and ordinary civic space, the relationship between settlement and surrounding landscape. A useful route in Hoi An lets the reader compare buildings, streets, and public life without losing the thread. The visit works best when it is paced as a small sequence of places, not as an accumulation of attractions. Leave room for the setting around each stop to become legible. A smaller route usually gives the reader more evidence than a crowded one.
When to avoid
Do not visit Hoi An expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. In Hoi An, opening hours, transport, weather, crowds, and distance can shape the day more than the list of sights. In Hoi An, it is better to build a tight route than to rely on long transfers between secondary stops. If the main interest is one nearby site, it may be better to treat Hoi An as a base rather than the whole destination.
Hot Season (June-August)
June through August are the months when heat and daylight most affect a visit to Hoi An. Heat and rain patterns in Hoi An deserve more attention than the calendar label. A warm day in Hoi An should have phases: outdoor streets, indoor collections or churches, then a slower evening. In Hoi An, confirm opening hours before assuming a long continuous day will work.
Wet Season (Sep to Jan)
The cooler, drier, or less humid months can be the more comfortable period in Hoi An. In Hoi An, the drier cooler months are usually better for walking. The practical issue in Hoi An is not temperature alone, but what rain, humidity, storms, or sea conditions do to the plan. In Hoi An, this is often a season for interiors, short walks, and slower observation rather than ambitious routing. For Hoi An, shorten exposed walks, verify opening times, and avoid making a late or wet return depend on weak transport links.
The next week in Hoi An
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Thunderstorm
36° / 27°
1.5 mm
UV Very high
Sat
Thunderstorm
33° / 27°
10.6 mm
UV High
Sun
Thunderstorm
32° / 26°
1.8 mm
UV Very high
Mon
Thunderstorm
33° / 26°
3.4 mm
UV Very high
Tue
Showers
32° / 26°
15.0 mm
UV Very high
Wed
Thunderstorm
32°
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
37° / 20°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
12.9h
05:16 – 18:08local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Hoi An
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Da Nang International Airport (DAD) at 24 km.
Getting around Hoi An
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
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Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.