Hội An is no longer a town: what changed in 2025
Since 1 July 2025, Hội An is a ward of Đà Nẵng — three wards, in fact. What that changes for an address, a form, or a booking made from abroad.
This sheet is not a travel story. It gathers what official sources say, and stops where they stop.
An address written “Hội An, Quảng Nam” now names a place that still exists, in a province that does not. Most guides online have not caught up.
01What changed
On 12 April 2025 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam approved Resolution 60-NQ/TW: the country goes from 63 provinces and cities to 34. The reform took legal effect on 1 July 2025.
Quảng Nam province was dissolved. Its territory was absorbed into the city of Đà Nẵng.
Hội An, which was a town of that province, stopped being a town. On 16 June 2025, Resolution 1659/NQ-UBTVQH15 of the National Assembly Standing Committee reorganised the commune-level administrative units of Đà Nẵng.
02The three wards
The former town is now split across three wards (phường):
- Hội An — the Old Town, with the islands of Cẩm Nam and Cẩm Kim
- Hội An Đông
- Hội An Tây
Hội An ward brings together the former wards of Minh An, Cẩm Phô, Sơn Phong and Cẩm Nam, together with the former commune of Cẩm Kim.
After reorganisation, Đà Nẵng has 94 commune-level units: 23 wards, 70 communes and one special zone.
03What it changes in practice
Administrative forms, stay declarations and official documents use the new naming. Booking platforms and mapping applications have not all followed, and still display the old one.
An address given in the old form is still understood on the ground. It may not be understood by an online form.
04When to come
Central Vietnam has a dry season and a rainy one. Records agree on a rainy season running from September to December, peaking in October and November — a window that coincides with typhoon season on the central coast. Hội An’s flooding happens inside it.
These figures come from climate aggregation services. No Vietnamese meteorological service source could be reached on the verification date: they give an order of magnitude, they are not authoritative.
05Formalities
The Vietnamese e-visa allows a stay of up to 90 days, single or multiple entry. The official application site is evisa.gov.vn.
That site did not respond on 4 September 2026. Conditions, processing times and fees must be confirmed with it directly before travelling. No other source is authoritative on this point.
06How to check it yourself
The text of Resolution 1659/NQ-UBTVQH15 is published in English on the legal database thuvienphapluat.vn. It lists, unit by unit, what merged into what.
Đà Nẵng published a digital administrative map of its 94 units at bando.danang.gov.vn. That service did not answer from outside Vietnam on the verification date.
07If your documents predate July 2025
A booking, an insurance policy or a ticket reading “Hội An, Quảng Nam” is still valid: the place has not moved, only what it belongs to.
A form filled in today expects the new naming. An online form that no longer offers Quảng Nam in its dropdown is not broken.
08The principle behind the reform
The reform removes an entire tier. Vietnam had three local levels: province, district, commune. The district is gone. Only the province remains, and beneath it the commune or the ward.
Nationwide, commune-level units drop from 10,035 to 3,321 — a reduction of almost 67%.
09What this sheet does not say
Where to sleep. Where to eat. What a ride from Đà Nẵng airport costs — the figures found vary between sources and none is official. Whether the Old Town is worth the detour.
Nobody here has been. This sheet says what can be checked, not what can be felt.