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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Hoi An or St. Pete 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
  • shopping

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete 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 72, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, St. Pete Beach 40: Hoi An leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, St. Pete Beach 18: Hoi An leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An and St. Pete Beach are level on 28.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, St. Pete Beach 57: Hoi An leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, St. Pete Beach 30: Hoi An leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, St. Pete Beach 20: Hoi An leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, St. Pete Beach 32: Hoi An leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, St. Pete Beach 20: Hoi An leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, St. Pete Beach 42: Hoi An leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and St. Pete 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.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Hoi AnSt. Pete Beach

Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnSt. Pete Beach
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation13 m2 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnSt. Pete Beach
City population121,7168,879
People per km²-173
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.