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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Hoi An or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • families

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Hoi An leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, San Miguel de Allende 62: Hoi An leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, San Miguel de Allende 62: Hoi An leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, San Miguel de Allende 40: Hoi An leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, San Miguel de Allende 32: Hoi An leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Hoi An and San Miguel de Allende are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, San Miguel de Allende 55: Hoi An leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, San Miguel de Allende 50: Hoi An leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and San Miguel de Allende.

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.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Hoi AnSan Miguel de Allende

Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageVietnameseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDong (VND)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation13 m1,900 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnSan Miguel de Allende
City population121,71669,811
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.