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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hoi An or Nashville?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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 72, Nashville 14: Hoi An leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Nashville 62: Hoi An leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Nashville 50: Hoi An leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Nashville 46: Hoi An leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Nashville 55: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Nashville 30: Hoi An leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Nashville 42: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Nashville 30: Hoi An leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Nashville 20: Hoi An leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Nashville.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnNashville
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation13 m182 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnNashville
City population121,716689,447
People per km²-506
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.