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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License.

Hoi An or Laguna Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Hoi An for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Hoi An’s own page.

Choose Laguna Beach for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Hoi An and Laguna Beach are level on 72.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Laguna Beach 40: Hoi An leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Laguna Beach 27: Hoi An leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Laguna Beach 18: Hoi An leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Laguna Beach 73: Laguna Beach leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Laguna Beach 72: Laguna Beach leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Laguna Beach 68: Laguna Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Laguna Beach 33: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Laguna Beach 46: Hoi An leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Laguna Beach 12: Hoi An leads by 76 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Laguna Beach 40: Laguna Beach leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Laguna Beach 47: Hoi An leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Laguna Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Hoi AnLaguna Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnLaguna Beach
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation13 m6 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnLaguna Beach
City population121,71623,032
People per km²-907
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.