🇻🇳Ho Chi Minh City for Digital Nomads
Vietnam · Fast & inexpensive
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Costs
from €687/mo
Wifi
44Mbps
Mild months
0of 12
Safety
—
no data yet
Overall
4.4
Ho Chi Minh City at a glance
Ho Chi Minh City is momentum with traffic lights: Vietnam's commercial engine, running on iced coffee and a café economy — 1,591 cafés mapped within 15 km4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026, within 15 km) — where the national price level of 28.9 against a US benchmark of 1008 (source: World Bank — price level of household consumption, US = 100) makes ambition affordable. The measured internet holds a 43.7 Mbps median download5 (source: M-Lab — median download speed), and the plant-based economy is unusually deep for the region4 (source: OpenStreetMap — vegan-friendly share, July 2026).
The terms are tropical-urban: no month lands in the mild band2 (source: Nomadbase comfort index — from 2025 data), the wet season runs on afternoon monsoon bursts, and the modelled air sits at 27.9 µg/m³ PM2.53 (source: Copernicus CAMS — modelled annual figure — no station reports here). Most EU passports get 45 visa-free days11 (source: Government sources — checked 2026-07-29); everyone else e-visas from day one, and no nomad route exists to pretend otherwise11 (source: Government sources — checked 2026-07-29).
It suits you if energy is a nutrient, your budget likes Vietnamese maths, and you can love a city that never pretends to be pretty. It suits you less if you need calm, green or regulatory certainty — Saigon is a current you join, not a pool you float in.
What works
- National price level 28.9 (US = 100)8 (source: World Bank — household consumption price level)
- 1,591 cafés mapped within 15 km4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026) — the workspace is ambient
- Median download of 43.7 Mbps5 (source: M-Lab — median download speed)
- A vegan-friendly food layer rare for the region4 (source: OpenStreetMap — July 2026)
Worth knowing
- No month in the mild band2 (source: Nomadbase comfort index — from 2025 data) — heat is the constant
- Modelled PM2.5 of 27.9 µg/m³3 (source: Copernicus CAMS — no station reports here)
- 45 visa-free days for EU passports only11 (source: Government sources — checked 2026-07-29); no nomad visa
- Tap water is not drinkable9 (source: Nomadbase country research — country tap-water tier); the scooter tide takes learning
Living in Ho Chi Minh City
Neighbourhoods, finding a place and getting around — the practical layer the data tiles below cannot carry. Working, money, people and time off live in their own sections.
Where to stay
District 1 is the centre at full volume; District 3 softens it with tree-lined streets and the best café density per block. Thảo Điền (District 2) is the expat village — international groceries, gyms, river breeze — connected by the new metro line. Bình Thạnh offers local-priced towers between the two worlds, and Phú Nhuận is the quiet professional pick. The city is a heat map of micro-neighbourhoods; the alley (hẻm) you live in matters more than the district number.
Finding a place
Serviced apartments and studio towers move through Facebook groups and local agents at speed — furnished, flexible, negotiable with a month's commitment. The stock is deep and the churn constant. Check the window situation (interior rooms exist and are cheaper for reasons), the water heater, and the alley's flood history in wet season — locals answer honestly.
Getting around
The scooter tide is the city — join it via Grab and Be on the back seat first, and only graduate to riding if you accept the physics honestly. The first metro line finally runs and helps its corridor; taxis fill the gaps cheaply. Walking works within neighbourhoods before the heat and after dark; crossing streets is the famous act of faith, performed steadily.
Cost of living
#9of 101 destinations
€687–€786/mo
a coliving room to a place of your own, plus everyday spending
What a month actually costs, as a range — housing you can verify, everyday spending modelled from national price levels, and every line labelled with which it is.
Money
Cash and local transfer apps run the alleys; cards cover the modern tier. ATMs are everywhere with modest caps. The economics are the quiet luxury: street food that costs pocket change and towers that cost a fraction of their skyline equivalents anywhere else.
- Coliving room
- €434
- Food, groceries and eating outmodelled
- €160 – €226
- Local transportmodelled
- €12 – €17
- Leisuremodelled
- €65 – €92
- Mobile data
- €17
- Coworking deskadd-on, not in the range
- €78/mo7 (source: Published prices — the Hive Thao Dien and the Hive District 1 — median of 2 published monthly hot-desk rates (2,300,000 VND), REPLACES the earlier Dreamplex figure (~USD 115), one chain-wide price that stood in for both Vietnamese cities and hid the local spread this pair shows. Published strings: the Hive Thao Dien (District 2) "Hot Desk from 1,800,000 VND per person/month"; the Hive District 1 "Hot Desk from 2,800,000 VND per person/month". Median of 2 = 2,300,000. Same pages: Dedicated Desk from 3,500,000 (Thao Dien) / 3,800,000 (D1); Private Office from 5,500,000 — both excluded. DISCREPANCY noted: thehive.com.vn's homepage still shows an older 1,500,000 hot desk, so the dedicated /membership/ page was taken as authoritative. No VAT statement. WeWork HCMC returns 403; CirCO publishes only a virtual-office price and has no flexible-desk page in its sitemap; Toong publishes none., checked 2026-07-30. Converted at the Vietcombank rate for 2026-07-30 ("Transfer" (chuyển khoản) rate for EUR from Vietcombank's published daily rate feed, timestamped 30/07/2026 21:08 — the non-cash rate, which is what a card payment or bank transfer realises. Vietnam's largest bank by FX turnover and the country's reference quote. The State Bank of Vietnam's "tỷ giá trung tâm" of 25,320/USD for the same day is a policy anchor, not a transactable quote, and is not used.). ⚠️ A transfer rate, not a cash rate. Vietcombank the same day: EUR buy 29,327.47 / transfer 29,623.71 / sell 30,873.62 — so changing EUR cash realises the buy side, about 1.0% below this figure, and buying EUR back costs the sell side. Converting at the SBV central rate instead, as this entry did until 2026-07-30, read 2.7% dearer than the market.)
Spot prices: coliving room €434/mo7 (source: Published prices — Kolab Living, private room with private bathroom from-rate, Da Kao District 1 (500 USD), all utilities, wifi, weekly cleaning and laundry incl.; min stay 1 month, checked 2026-08-05) · 3-star hotel €21/night7 (source: Published prices — Booking.com, 3-star Ho Chi Minh City, night 12-13 Aug 2026, 2 adults, Page heading verbatim: "Ho Chi Minh City: 873 properties found. Applied filters: 3 stars." Median of the first 3 listed, each "3 out of 5" and "Includes taxes and charges": Lovera Hotel Airport EUR 21, Lotus Airport Hotel Saigon EUR 21, Nicecy Hotel Truong Quyen EUR 22. Unlike Hanoi none is a strike-through promo, so this is a clean snapshot. Two of the three are airport-area hotels, which Booking's top-picks ordering surfaced — not city-centre rates., checked 2026-07-30) · ride-hailing ~5 km €2.91/ride7 (source: Published prices — Vinasun Taxi, own fare notification (Vios / Yaris Cross Hybrid, 5 seats), VAT included (86,200 VND), The freshest official fare source found for either Vietnamese city: "Bang gia cuoc ap dung tu ngay 14/07/2026", stating "Muc gia tren da bao gom thue VAT". Arithmetic: the 16,000 VND opening fare covers the first 500 m, so 4.5 km x 15,600 = 70,200; total 86,200 VND. 7-seat 95,300; VIP 99,800. First 5 minutes of waiting free, then 3,000 VND per 3 min. Vinasun does NOT serve Hanoi (own service area: HCMC, Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Dong Thap, Da Nang), which is why the two cities carry different taxi sources. G7 Taxi HCMC brackets it at 99,120 VND., checked 2026-07-30. Converted at the Vietcombank rate for 2026-07-30 ("Transfer" (chuyển khoản) rate for EUR from Vietcombank's published daily rate feed, timestamped 30/07/2026 21:08 — the non-cash rate, which is what a card payment or bank transfer realises. Vietnam's largest bank by FX turnover and the country's reference quote. The State Bank of Vietnam's "tỷ giá trung tâm" of 25,320/USD for the same day is a policy anchor, not a transactable quote, and is not used.). ⚠️ A transfer rate, not a cash rate. Vietcombank the same day: EUR buy 29,327.47 / transfer 29,623.71 / sell 30,873.62 — so changing EUR cash realises the buy side, about 1.0% below this figure, and buying EUR back costs the sell side. Converting at the SBV central rate instead, as this entry did until 2026-07-30, read 2.7% dearer than the market.) · café latte €1.997 (source: Published prices — The Coffee House, "Latte Classic" (size Nho) — the chain's own live menu endpoint (59,000 VND), Same chain menu and same reading as Hanoi: product "Latte Classic", base_price 59000, variants Nho 59000 / Vua 65000 / Lon 69000. The chain default menu carries no branch parameter, so this figure is national rather than city-specific — the two Vietnamese cities showing the same latte price is a property of the source, not of the cities., checked 2026-07-30. Converted at the Vietcombank rate for 2026-07-30 ("Transfer" (chuyển khoản) rate for EUR from Vietcombank's published daily rate feed, timestamped 30/07/2026 21:08 — the non-cash rate, which is what a card payment or bank transfer realises. Vietnam's largest bank by FX turnover and the country's reference quote. The State Bank of Vietnam's "tỷ giá trung tâm" of 25,320/USD for the same day is a policy anchor, not a transactable quote, and is not used.). ⚠️ A transfer rate, not a cash rate. Vietcombank the same day: EUR buy 29,327.47 / transfer 29,623.71 / sell 30,873.62 — so changing EUR cash realises the buy side, about 1.0% below this figure, and buying EUR back costs the sell side. Converting at the SBV central rate instead, as this entry did until 2026-07-30, read 2.7% dearer than the market.) · Big Mac €2.517 (source: Published prices — The Economist Big Mac Index, national average (76,000 VND = 2.89 USD), July 2026 release — data CC BY 4.0)
Work
#74of 103 destinations
44Mbps
median download, measured in the city
Connection, desks and whether a day here meets yours — the three things that decide whether you can do your job from this city.
Working from here
The café is the city's operating system: floors of them, purpose-built for hours of laptop residency, air-conditioned and open late. Coworking spaces add call booths and community across D1, D3 and Thảo Điền. Fibre at home is cheap and fast when the building cooperates. The practical craft is thermal and electrical: backup battery, downloaded maps, and calls scheduled around the monsoon hour in season.
Internet
Coliving & coworking
- Coworking spaces mapped
- 14 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Cafés mapped
- 1,5914 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Time zones
Workday overlap with Europe
2 of 8 h1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — Nomadbase overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day against Open-Meteo time zone (Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh), standard time; Europe reference UTC+1)
Workday overlap with US East
0 of 8 h1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — Nomadbase overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day against Open-Meteo time zone (Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh), standard time; US East reference UTC-5)
Overlap is the hours a 09:00–17:00 day here meets a 09:00–17:00 day there, at standard time.
Climate & air
#102of 103 destinations
0of 12
mild months — felt temperature between 18 and 27 °C
Month by month, not as one annual average. 18–27 °C is the range where being outside feels good — we count how much of the year sits inside it.
Seasons
Two seasons, both hot: dry from roughly December to April, building to the furnace weeks before the rains; wet from May to November, when afternoon monsoon bursts flood the usual suspects and cool nothing for long. The daily architecture matters more than the calendar: early mornings are golden, midday belongs to air conditioning, and the city's second life starts at dusk. There is no month that needs a jacket, ever.
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feels-like monthly mean · ticks = rain days1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 monthly means (felt temperature, rain-day share, cloud share))
comfortable & clearcomfortable, wetter/greyeroutside the 18–27 °C band
- Dry days a year
- 136 days/year1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 full-year count)
- Cloud cover, annual mean
- 79%1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 annual average)
Air quality — PM2.5, recent median
27.9 µg/m³ · very poor3 (source: Copernicus CAMS — modelled 30-day mean)
The climate score is built from that band plus rain and cloud cover, month by month — so a hot summer costs a destination points rather than earning them.
Safety & everyday life
#95of 103 destinations
7.1/ 10
women's safety — Georgetown WPS index, country level
Country-level indicators — a practical baseline for the whole country, not the vibe of one neighbourhood. Community reports refine this picture over time.
Staying safe
Violent crime against foreigners is rare; the city's signature risk is the snatch — phones and bags lifted from pavement hands by passing riders. The counter-habits become automatic: phone away at kerbs, bag strap across, valuables on the building side. The traffic itself is the bigger daily hazard, wet-season flooding turns select streets into rivers on schedule, and the nightlife wants the standard drink awareness. None of it dents the city's basic late-night workability.
- Homicide rate, national
- not measured yet
- Hospitals & clinics
- ≈ 1.9 / 100k4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Pharmacies
- ≈ 2.6 / 100k4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Safety for women
7.1 / 10
Georgetown WPS index — inclusion, justice and security, country level
271 mapped within 15 km
364 mapped within 15 km
Getting by in English
4.0 / 10
moderate English proficiency
LGBTQ+ legal position · Vietnam9 (source: Nomadbase country research — checked 2026-07-29)
4.0 / 10- Same-sex relationshipsLegal
- Partnership recognitionNone
- Employment protectionsNo
- Legal gender changeNot possible
1 queer venue mapped in the city · ≈ 0.0 per 100k residents4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Never criminalised and increasingly tolerant in urban areas; a 2014 law removed the ban on same-sex weddings but grants no legal recognition. The 2015 Civil Code recognises a right to gender change after reassignment, but the implementing Gender Affirmation Law is still pending, so marker changes remain largely unobtainable in practice.
Tap water · Vietnam9 (source: Nomadbase country research — checked 2026-07-29)
1.0 / 10Unsafe
Bottled advised
Mostly fine
Drink the tap
Not safe without treatment
Tap water is not potable anywhere, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; locals boil it and visitors should use bottled or filtered water.
Getting there & staying
#76of 103 destinations
45 days
visa-free on an EU passport · set in Your setup
How you get in, how long you may stay, and what it takes to run a business from here.
Visa & entry requirements
Most EU passports get 45 days visa-free — guaranteed until 2028 under two government resolutions — while US, Canadian and Australian passports need the 90-day e-visa (US$25). There is no nomad visa; the much-hyped 10-year golden visa was still only a draft as of spring 2026.11 (source: Government sources — checked against the official source on July 29, 2026)
How long you can stay
- 45 days visa-free for 13 unilaterally exempt nationalities — Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Japan, South Korea — locked in until 14 March 2028 (Resolution 44/NQ-CP).
- Another 12 European countries — Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czechia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia (tourism entries) — get 45 days until 14 August 2028 under the tourism-stimulus Resolution 229/NQ-CP.
- Everyone else — including US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Portugal — needs the e-visa: open to all nationalities, 90 days per stay, single (US$25) or multiple entry (US$50), issued online in a few working days. Entry points expanded to 83 in late 2025.
- Back-to-back exempt entries and visa runs are common and rarely blocked, but nothing in the rules guarantees them — officers can question frequent returns.
Staying longer as a remote worker
- There is no digital-nomad visa and no legal remote-work status. Working online while on a tourist exemption or e-visa is the standard practice and a genuine grey area — tolerated in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, never formally permitted.
- The realistic long-stay pattern is stringing 90-day multiple-entry e-visas together with border runs.
- ⚠️ Pending, not law: a 5-to-10-year "golden visa" for investors, talent and nomads has been proposed to the Prime Minister, but as of April 2026 it had no decree and no application channel. The only enacted long-term routes are DT investor visas, which require real capital in a Vietnamese company.
- A digital arrival card pilot started at Ho Chi Minh City airport on 15 April 2026 — expect more pre-arrival paperwork, not fewer checks.
Visa rules change frequently. This information was last checked on July 29, 2026. It is not legal advice — confirm before booking with the official source.
Flights
The nearest major airport — Tan Son Nhat International Airport — is 2 km6 (source: OurAirports — nearest major airport is Tan Son Nhat International Airport) out, with 1 airport6 (source: OurAirports — major and regional airports with scheduled service) within 100 km overall.
Company & banking
Setting up a company
4.0 / 10
partly remote · foreign ownership restricted · no real minimum capital · ~45 days to register
Opening an account
5.3 / 10
personal account difficult · business account straightforward · branch visit needed · limited EMI cover
Setting up, in practice
This changed on 1 March 2026: the Law on Investment 2025 introduced ERC-first incorporation, so a foreign investor now registers the company first and files the Investment Registration Certificate within 12 months — but may only run the investment project once the IRC is issued. Statutory times are 3 working days for the ERC and 15 for the IRC; realistically 6–10 weeks with document legalisation. No statutory minimum capital, though the authority assesses whether the stated capital fits the project.Banking, in practice
A registered company gets an account without much friction. Personal accounts for non-residents are hard, and the capital-contribution account for the foreign investment is a separate, mandatory thing that trips people up.Not legal or tax advice. Company law, fees and bank policy change without notice — confirm with the registry linked on each figure and with a local adviser before you act on any of it.
Going out
#70of 103 destinations
5.4/ 100
bars, pubs and clubs per 100 restaurants & cafés
Evenings, eating and what there is to do once the laptop closes.
Time off
The Mekong Delta's canals and floating markets sit two hours south; Vũng Tàu is the quick sea fix. Flights fan out cheaply — Đà Nẵng and Hội An, Nha Trang's bay, Phú Quốc's beaches, Đà Lạt's pine-hill coolness as the local altitude escape. Cambodia's Phnom Penh is a bus ride, and the whole region prices like a suggestion.
CafésClick the map to open it — 26 places mapped in Ho Chi Minh City altogether.
- Bars, pubs and clubs
- 2094 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Restaurants
- 2,2534 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Vegan-friendly places
- 3174 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Vegetarian-friendly places
- 3674 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
mapped within 15 km
mapped within 15 km — the base the shares below are measured against
8.2 per 100 restaurants & cafés
9.5 per 100 restaurants & cafés
Being active
#103of 103 destinations
78spots
gyms and yoga studios mapped in town
Gyms, studios and board sports in town, and the nature within reach — counted where counting is honest, shown as a badge where the map is too sparse to rank.
Staying active
Dawn is the sports hour: the parks fill with aerobics, badminton and joggers before the heat claims the day, and Landmark's riverside path adds kilometres with a skyline. Gyms run from local iron basements to international chains, the climbing and CrossFit scenes are established, and Thảo Điền's studios cover yoga and everything adjacent. Swimming pools in the tower blocks are the midday cheat code.
In town
GymsYogaClick the map to open it — 26 places mapped in Ho Chi Minh City altogether.
- Gyms
- 724 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Yoga studios
- 64 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
mapped within 15 km — ≈ 0.5 / 100k
mapped within 15 km — ≈ 0.0 / 100k
Nature within reach
Community
Who is here, who is coming, and who has been. Counts only — never names.
Meeting people
The expat-and-nomad scene is large, fast-turning and easy to enter — coworking events, run clubs, the Thảo Điền brunch circuit — while Vietnamese professional culture meets you halfway through the startup and English-practice worlds. The city's social currency is shared tables and iced coffee; accepting the invitation to sit is the whole protocol.
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How the scores work
Every score runs 0–10 and is comparative — where Ho Chi Minh City lands across the catalogue, not a grade in isolation.
Cost
9.0#9 of 101 · 1 of 1 measured
What a month costs, from the cheapest way of living here to the dearest we can price.
A month runs €687–€786 and everyday spending is modelled from national price levels. Across the catalogue that ranks 9th of 101.
Public data 9.0
Work
3.5#74 of 103 · 2 of 2 measured
Connection, desks and whether the working day here meets yours.
Typical downloads run around 44 Mbps and 1 coworking spaces are mapped in town. Across the catalogue that ranks 74th of 103.
Public data 5.2
Public data 1.8
Climate
1.1#102 of 103 · 1 of 1 measured
How the year feels outside, air quality included.
0 of the 12 months sit in the comfortable 18–27 °C range and air pollution is heavy (27.9 µg/m³ PM2.5, modelled — no station reports here). Across the catalogue that ranks 102nd of 103.
Public data 1.1
Safety
3.4#95 of 103 · 5 of 6 measured
The country-level baseline: violence, healthcare, water, and who the law protects.
Women's safety scores 7.1/10 on the Georgetown index, 271 clinics and hospitals are mapped within reach and tap water is not drinkable. Across the catalogue that ranks 95th of 103.
Public data 0.4
Public data 7.1
Public data 1.0
Public data 4.0
Public data 4.0
Not measured here yet: safety.
Read the sectionGetting there
4.7#76 of 103 · 3 of 3 measured
Getting in, staying legally, and flying out again.
An EU passport gets 45 visa-free days, there is no long-stay route for remote work and the nearest major airport is 2 km from town. Across the catalogue that ranks 76th of 103.
Public data 1.3
Public data 9.9
Public data 4.6
Going out
3.9#70 of 103 · 4 of 4 measured
Evenings, eating and what there is to do when the laptop closes.
For every 100 restaurants and cafés there are 5 bars, pubs or clubs and 8 vegan-friendly places per 100 restaurants and cafés. Across the catalogue that ranks 70th of 103.
Public data 0.9
Public data 1.2
Public data 9.7
Public data 9.2
Being active
1.3#103 of 103 · 2 of 2 measured
Gyms and studios, board sports, and the nature within reach.
72 gyms and 6 yoga studios are mapped in town and 1 nature reserves and 0 hiking routes lie within 30 km. Across the catalogue that ranks 103rd of 103.
Public data 1.8
Public data 0.9
Community
Nothing measured here yet
Members on the ground, chapters and events — our own data, not a proxy.
Not measured here yet: community.
Read the sectionSources
Every figure on this page carries the source it came from and the date it was measured. Where no source exists, the field is left empty rather than estimated.
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Copernicus ERA5Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information
ECMWF’s ERA5 reanalysis, retrieved through Open-Meteo. Temperatures, rainfall, cloud cover and wind are daily values for the last complete calendar year.
- 2
Our own reading of ERA5 data, not a measurement: a month-by-month score for how comfortable the felt temperature is, damped for rain and cloud. The formula is published.
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Copernicus CAMS© ECMWF/Copernicus
Modelled air quality, used only where no ground station exists. A 40km model cell, not a measurement on the corner — the page says which of the two you are looking at.
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OpenStreetMapODbL
Community-mapped places: coworking, cafés, gyms and diet options within 15km. Counts are a floor rather than a census — coverage depends on local mappers.
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M-LabCC BY-SA 4.0
Internet speed from real speed tests run by people in the city, aggregated over a seven-day window.
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OurAirportsPublic domain
Airport locations and types. Distances are to the nearest major airport with scheduled service.
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Prices read by hand from the operator’s or authority’s own published price list — a transit tariff, a coworking rate card, an eSIM store — on the date shown. Checked quarterly; the linked page is the source.
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World BankCC BY 4.0
Price level of household consumption at market exchange rates (US = 100) — a national figure that anchors the cost score where no city-level source exists yet. It measures what arriving with foreign income feels like, which is why a weak currency lowers it.
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Hand-maintained country tables for the LGBTQ+ legal position and tap-water safety, compiled from advocacy databases (ILGA World, Human Dignity Trust), national authorities and government travel advice, and scored with a published rubric. Country-level by nature — city reality can differ, which is what the practical note is for.
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WikidataCC0
Structural facts taken from the place’s Wikidata entity — resident population, which mirrors a national census figure, and elevation above sea level. The year is the one Wikidata records for that figure; where the entity was the wrong scale for the place we describe, the number has been replaced by a hand-sourced one from the statistics office instead.
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Government sources
Visa and entry rules come from the responsible authority for each country, linked in the visa section and re-checked by hand on the date shown.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to live in Ho Chi Minh City per month?
Between €687 and €786 a month, housing and everyday spending together. Housing is a coliving room at €434. Everyday spending — food, local transport, leisure — is modelled from national price levels rather than measured in the city, so it is an indication and not a quote. A coworking desk is extra at €78. Every figure carries its source on the destination page.
How fast is the internet in Ho Chi Minh City?
Median download speed is about 43.7 Mbps. Source: M-Lab median of 6,751 tests within 50 km, last 7 days.
What visa do I need for Ho Chi Minh City?
Most EU passports get 45 days visa-free — guaranteed until 2028 under two government resolutions — while US, Canadian and Australian passports need the 90-day e-visa (US$25). There is no nomad visa; the much-hyped 10-year golden visa was still only a draft as of spring 2026. Last checked 2026-07-29. Always confirm with the official source before booking.
What is the weather like in Ho Chi Minh City?
Winters average 26.9 °C and summers 28 °C. 0 of 12 months average a comfortable 18–27 °C (felt temperature). Source: Copernicus ERA5, 2025 annual average.
Can I work European or US hours from Ho Chi Minh City?
A 09:00–17:00 working day in Ho Chi Minh City overlaps 2 hours with Central European time and 0 hours with US Eastern time, at standard time.
Are there coworking spaces in Ho Chi Minh City?
1 coworking spaces are mapped in Ho Chi Minh City, plus 1591 cafés to work from. Source: OpenStreetMap, within 15km. Counts are a floor, not a census — coverage depends on local mappers.
How do you get to Ho Chi Minh City?
The nearest major airport is about 2 km away. 1 airport with scheduled service within 100 km. Source: OurAirports — nearest major airport is Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
Where Ho Chi Minh City ranks
Last reviewed August 5, 2026. Every figure carries its own measurement date; hover a footnote for the source, or see the list above.