🇻🇳Cost of Travel in Vietnam (2026): Daily Budgets for 4 Cities
Limestone karsts, motorbike-choked old quarters, and some of the best street food anywhere — a north-to-south spread of capital history, wartime memory, and coastline that rewards a slow trip.
Daily budgets in Vietnam
The cheapest city in Vietnam is Hanoi, at $25–50 a day mid-range per person; the priciest is Da Nang, at $30–65 — about 18% more for the same style of trip.
| City | Budget / day | Mid-range / day | Comfort / day | Cheap meal | Mid-range hotel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanoi | $15–30 | $25–50 | $45–90 | $1–3 | $30–60 |
| Hoi An | $15–35 | $25–55 | $45–100 | $1.50–4 | $30–65 |
| Ho Chi Minh City | $15–35 | $25–55 | $45–100 | $1.50–3.50 | $30–65 |
| Da Nang | $20–40 | $30–65 | $55–120 | $1.50–4 | $35–70 |
Per person in US dollars, flights not included. Mid-range is each guide's researched figure and includes a mid-range room; budget and comfort scale it by 0.6 and 1.8, so treat those as rough. How we work these out.
Plan a trip across Vietnam
Set the nights you'd spend in each city. Per person, before flights; each night counts one day of that city's daily budget.
Cities
🇻🇳Da Nang
VietnamVietnam's most livable city — a long clean beach, a glowing dragon bridge that breathes fire on weekends, and a relaxed, modern pace that's a world away from Hanoi or Saigon's traffic.
🇻🇳Hanoi
VietnamA thousand-year-old capital where motorbikes swarm narrow Old Quarter streets, French colonial villas sit beside pagodas, and plastic stools spill onto the sidewalk for the country's best bowl of pho.
🇻🇳Ho Chi Minh City
VietnamStill called Saigon by most locals — a fast-moving, entrepreneurial city of glass towers rising over French colonial landmarks, with a motorbike sea and a street-food scene that runs 24 hours.
🇻🇳Hoi An
VietnamA UNESCO-listed trading port frozen in time — lantern-lit streets, a centuries-old Japanese bridge, and a tailoring industry that can turn a sketch into a custom suit in 48 hours.
Head to head
Two cities side by side — costs, best months and what you'd do in each.