Quy Nhon
A coastal city in central Vietnam with a long sandy beach right in the city centre. Swim on the city beach, see the Cham Twin Towers, take a day trip to Ky Co and Eo Gio, and eat fish-cake noodle soup. Suits beach lovers and couples.
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You wake on a long crescent of yellow sand, fairly clear and blue, buildings along Xuân Diệu a short walk from the water, with Kỳ Co and Eo Gió waiting a day away. Stay here when that night on the crescent is the trip. Go to Da Nang, 300 km up the coast, when that city is the trip, or continue south toward Nha Trang.
The city beach is free, open 6:00–23:00, with a listed visit of 60 minutes. Kỳ Co is a separate cove, nearly 25 km away, its own sand with hills on three sides. The distance is not split into road and boat.
Evening is Xuân Diệu, for seafood and a cafe on the sand, then Quảng trường Nguyễn Tất Thành, 6.5 ha on the avenue of that name. The square is free and open 6:00–22:00. Horse carts leave from Xuân Diệu near the square, along Xuân Diệu or An Dương Vương. The square names New Year fireworks and Festival võ Bình Định.
Cầu Thị Nại is the span on the road toward the peninsula, called the longest sea bridge, at 2,477.3 m and 54 spans, on a road of more than 7 km that also has five shorter bridges. Cross by day, and again after dark when the lamps are on. The lagoon is 8 km northeast. The 7:00–18:00 line does not close the road.
A day across the bridge is Phương Mai. Eo Gió is the rock saddle: 25,000 đồng, children under 0.9 m free, open 7:00–19:00. The sunset is called the finest in Vietnam, and the sunrise is called the finest. The calm window is lunar month 3 through the end of lunar month 9. Stay away when the sea is rough. Kỳ Co is listed at 30,000–60,000 đồng. That range is separate from Eo Gió’s 25,000 đồng.
South of the center, Ghềnh Ráng is about 3 km and free: egg-shaped stones, and the cove called bãi tắm Hoàng Hậu because Nam Phương Hoàng Hậu bathed there. Bãi Xếp is 13 km south on the Quy Nhơn–Sông Cầu road. Inside the city, Tháp Đôi is the late-12th-century Cham pair, 20,000 đồng, open 7:00–18:00, in Phường Quy Nhơn and also in phường Đống Đa. Tháp Bánh Ít, about 20 km away, is a different site.
Common questions
- Should you stay in Quy Nhon or Da Nang?
- Stay here when the night on the crescent and Xuân Diệu is the trip. Go to Da Nang when that city is the trip. The coast road between them is 300 km.
- What do the Kỳ Co and Cù Lao Xanh price fields buy?
- Kỳ Co is listed at 30,000–60,000 đồng, and Cù Lao Xanh at 200,000–350,000 đồng. Neither figure says whether it is a gate, a boat, or a range. Eo Gió is a separate ticket, 25,000 đồng.
- Is the city still Quy Nhon?
- Quy Nhơn is described as the center of Bình Định, at 6,039.56 km² and 1,500,000 people. A 22 Apr 2025 draft described a merged province named Gia Lai, with the administrative center at present-day Quy Nhơn, about 21,576 km² and more than 3.1 million people. Resolution 202/2025/QH15 is dated 12 June 2025.
- When is the Nước Mặn festival?
- In 2025 the public days were 27 Feb–1 Mar, lunar 30th of the first month through the 2nd of the second month, Ất Tỵ. The place is thôn An Hòa, xã Phước Quang, huyện Tuy Phước, not the city beach. The festival is national intangible heritage, recognized in 2022.
- What sits outside the city?
- Tháp Bánh Ít is about 20 km away, 15,000 đồng, open 7:00–18:00. The Quang Trung museum is about 45 km northwest, 15,000 đồng, open 7:00–18:00. Trung Lương is free, and also 40,000 đồng including a shower, children under 1 m free. Xuân Diệu’s childhood house is at Gò Bồi, not the beach street. Quảng Ngãi and Sông Cầu are the coast on either side.
Top attractions in Quy Nhon
1 Quy Nhon beach Bãi biển Quy Nhơn
Yellow-sand crescent in the city center: swim it free for an hour or a full day, a short walk from the rooms.
2 Eo Gio Eo Gió
Rock saddle on Phuong Mai: stand in the gap for about 30 minutes and look down at the sea.
3 Ky Co Biển Kỳ Co
Cove of white sand nearly 25 km from the city: swim the clear shallows for about an hour.
4 Banh It towers Tháp Bánh Ít
Four Cham towers on a hill about 20 km out: walk the group in about 30 minutes, for 15,000 đồng.
5 Ghenh Rang Ghềnh Ráng
Egg-stone cove about 3 km southeast: walk the rounded rocks free for about an hour on the south coast.
6 Thi Nai bridge Cầu Thị Nại
White sea bridge across the lagoon: cross the span in about 30 minutes, free, on the road to the peninsula.
7 Twin towers Tháp Đôi
Late-12th-century Cham pair in the city: walk both brick towers on a two-hour visit, for 20,000 đồng.
Side trips from Quy Nhon
Da Nang
Central Vietnam’s beach city, with a long sandy shore, bridges over the river and mountains close by.
Nha Trang
A beach city on the south-central coast, with a long city beach, a bay full of islands, and mud baths.
Gia Lai
A Central Highlands province centred on the city of Pleiku, known for a volcanic crater lake and tea hills.
Quy Nhon by interest
Getting there and around
The city beach is a walk from the center. Sleep on the crescent if that night is the trip. Quy Hòa and Bãi Xếp, 13 km south, are the quieter sand. Lodging there runs from homestay to resort.
Phù Cát is the airport. A flight to Hồ Chí Minh City takes 1 hour and a flight to Hà Nội takes 2 hours.
Ga Diêu Trì is the stop on the north–south railway. Ga Quy Nhơn is not a row on that table. Southbound SE7: Đà Nẵng 22:30, Diêu Trì 04:12 the next day. Northbound SE8: Sài Gòn 06:00, Diêu Trì 18:07. Extra trains SE30 and SE29 stopped at both Diêu Trì and Quy Nhơn in February and March 2025 only.
The coast road is 300 km to Đà Nẵng, 686 km to Hồ Chí Minh City, and 1,065 km from Hà Nội. Kỳ Co is nearly 25 km, and the distance is not split into road and boat. Hải Minh is about 15 minutes by boat from bến Hàm Tử.
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