Geography and Climate
Nha Trang city has a metropolitan area of 251 km² and population of about 500,000 (as of 2007). It borders Ninh Hòa town by the north, Cam Ranh city by the south, Diên Khánh town by the west and the Biển Đông Sea to the east. The city is located on the beautiful Nha Trang Bay, which was chosen by Travel and Leisure in two succeeding years as one of 29 most beautiful bays in the world. Nha Trang is surrounded on all three sides by mountains and a large island on the fourth side (in the ocean directly in front of the city's main area), blocking major storms from potentially damaging the city.
Nha Trang has a tropical savanna climate with a lengthy dry season from January to August and a shorter wet season from September to December, when 1,029 millimetres (41 in) of the city’s total annual rainfall of 1,361 millimetres (54 in) is received from the northeast monsoon. During the wet season extremely heavy rainfall from typhoons is not uncommon, though the city is shielded from the worst winds.
| Climate data for Nha Trang (1937-1994) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 27.8 (82.0) |
28.9 (84.0) |
30.0 (86.0) |
31.7 (89.1) |
32.8 (91.0) |
33.3 (91.9) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.8 (91.0) |
31.7 (89.1) |
30.0 (86.0) |
28.9 (84.0) |
27.8 (82.0) |
30.71 (87.27) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 20.6 (69.1) |
20.6 (69.1) |
21.7 (71.1) |
23.3 (73.9) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.4 (75.9) |
23.9 (75.0) |
23.3 (73.9) |
22.2 (72.0) |
21.7 (71.1) |
22.91 (73.23) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 45.7 (1.799) |
17.8 (0.701) |
30.5 (1.201) |
38.1 (1.5) |
61.0 (2.402) |
45.7 (1.799) |
40.6 (1.598) |
53.3 (2.098) |
165.1 (6.5) |
322.6 (12.701) |
363.2 (14.299) |
177.8 (7) |
1,361.4 (53.598) |
| Source: Sistema de Clasificación Bioclimática Mundial | |||||||||||||
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