Ho Chi Minh City: how to get there and around

Ho Chi Minh City is a city of 14 million people in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)), 7 m (23 ft) above sea level. The nearest large airport is Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN), 2 km (1 mi) from the centre. It has 2 railway stations on record, including Gò Vấp railway station. Our booking partner lists 4,866+ places to stay.

Key facts

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Daylight in Ho Chi Minh City runs from about 11 h 32 min a day in late December to 12 h 48 min in late June (computed for 10.82° latitude), which matters more than the forecast when a day is built around one flight or one crossing.

Getting there

Ho Chi Minh City is served by one airport with scheduled flights. The closest large one is Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN), 2 km (1 mi) from the centre, whose 12,468-ft runway is long enough for long-haul wide-body aircraft.

Flights to Ho Chi Minh City: every airport, routes and times

By rail: stations on record include Gò Vấp railway station, Bình Triệu railway station. Trains to Ho Chi Minh City

Buses to Ho Chi Minh City · Driving and car hire

Where to stay

Our booking partner lists 4,866+ places to stay in Ho Chi Minh City (statistics below are from the first 1,000). Of the 776 with a star rating, the largest group is 3-star (331), and 72 are five-star. Across 706 properties with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 8.6 out of 10. Guests have left 389,686 reviews in total.

Hotels in Ho Chi Minh City: the full picture, and book

Our booking partner lists 84 hostels in Ho Chi Minh City, out of 4,866 places to stay of every kind — 1.7% of everywhere it lists in the city, around the middle of the range for the cities we hold figures for. Across 36 hostels with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 8.4 out of 10, 0.2 below the 8.6 its hotels average. Guests have left 20,955 reviews across them.

Hostels in Ho Chi Minh City: the full picture, and book

What people come for

The busiest is War Remnants Museum at 500,000 visitors. Figures are the latest each site has published, so they are not all for the same year.

Tours, tickets and day trips from Ho Chi Minh City

Nearby cities, and how to get between them

• Phnom Penh, 204 km (Cambodia) — flights · trains · buses · car rental · tours
• Cần Thơ, 127 km — trains · buses · car rental · tours
• Biên Hòa, 25 km — car rental · tours
• Takeo, 202 km (Cambodia) — flights · trains · buses · car rental · tours
• Thuận An, 15 km
• Nha Trang, 321 km — flights · trains · buses · car rental
• Thủ Đức, 16 km — tours
• Vũng Tàu, 73 km — buses · car rental · tours
• Dĩ An, 18 km — tours
• Rạch Giá, 192 km — flights · buses · car rental · tours

Twin towns and sister cities: San Francisco, Vientiane, Moscow, Manila, Shanghai, Rhône-Alpes, Busan, Osaka Prefecture, Champasak, Lyon, Guangzhou, Phnom Penh, Yekaterinburg, Shenyang.

Common questions

Where these facts come from

• GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, elevation, time zone, postal codes
• Wikidata (CC0): area, sister cities, visitor numbers, heritage listings, stations and ports
• OurAirports (public domain): airports, runways
• Natural Earth (public domain): map outlines

Data compiled 14 September 2026. Hotel and hostel figures are from our booking partner’s catalogue on that date. Journey times on this page are estimates from distance, not timetables; check the operator before you rely on one.