Ho Chi Minh City
City in Vietnam: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Ho Chi Minh City Skyline: Pimnl, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Ho Chi Minh City is a city in Vietnam, in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). About 14.0 million people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Vietnam in our atlas.
It lies at 10.82° N, 106.63° E, about 7 m (23 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Ho Chi Minh City. Green dots: other major cities of Vietnam. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Ho Chi Minh City has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 37°C (98°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 20°C (69°F). Around 1,373 mm (54 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Oct.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in VietnamNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Thuận An · 15 km
- Thủ Đức · 16 km
- Dĩ An · 18 km
- Biên Hòa · 25 km
- Vũng Tàu · 73 km
- Cần Thơ · 127 km
- Nha Trang · 321 km
- Qui Nhon · 433 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1566083 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q1854 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Ho Chi Minh City Skyline: Pimnl, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Landmark 81 in 2021: Joefrance1995, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- DJI 0550-HDR-Pano Bitexco Financial Tower: Lê Minh Phát, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Municipal Theatre of Ho Chi Minh City, 2023 (01): Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Thống Nhất Stadium: Vinhtantran, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Thao cam vien , Phuong Da kao, quan 1, tphcmvn - panoramio: trungydang, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bảo tàng Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 7: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museum of Fine Arts, HCMC: thalling55, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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