Most beach lists for Hoi An were written once, years ago, and copied ever since. You can tell, because the same wrong numbers keep turning up: An Bang “8 km away”, a hidden cove called Bai Rang “12 km south”, Cua Dai described as if the erosion and the rebuilding never happened. We rent bikes at 84 Phan Chau Trinh, three minutes on foot from the Japanese Covered Bridge, and the beach run is the first ride almost every one of our customers does.

So in October 2026 we re-measured every route on Google Maps directions from our door, and rewrote this guide around what we see customers enjoy and what they come back annoyed about. Six beaches made the cut. One famous name did not, and section 7 explains why.

Hoi An beach by motorbike: the six beaches at a glance

Every distance below is one way, measured from 84 Phan Chau Trinh on the fastest route Google Maps offered. Times are for an easy pace with normal daytime traffic; add five minutes on a bicycle-speed e-bike and take a few off at 7am.

If you only have one afternoon, ride to An Bang. If you have been to An Bang and found it busy, ride two more kilometres to Ha My. Those two answers cover nine out of ten of the questions we get at the counter.

One detail that confuses people with an older map: since the July 2025 reorganisation, Hoi An is a set of wards inside Da Nang city, and An Bang and Tan Thanh now sit in Hoi An Tay ward, the “west” ward, even though they are the town’s beaches. Cua Dai is in Hoi An Dong. Google Maps already uses the new names, so do not be thrown when your hotel’s beach shows up under “Tay”.

An Bang: closest and busiest

4.6 km · 12–14 minutes · straight up Hai Ba Trung. This is the easiest Hoi An beach by motorbike route there is. Leave the Old Town on Hai Ba Trung heading north-east, do not turn, and the road ends at the sand. It is wide, lit at night and the road nearly every first-time renter takes.

An Bang has the most infrastructure of the six: a continuous row of restaurants and beach bars, loungers and umbrellas, a lifeguard team in the summer season and proper guarded bike parking. The trade-off is people. On a fine afternoon, roughly 16:00 to 18:00, foreign visitors and Hoi An families all arrive at once and the sand fills up.

For food, the seafood places along the beach road sell by weight. Ask the price per kilo before they cook, and check the scale; prices are fair at most places, but the habit saves arguments. Our longer An Bang Beach guide covers the restaurants and the quieter southern end, and Hoi An to An Bang Beach compares getting there by bike, bicycle and Grab.

Tan Thanh: cafés on the sand

5.5 km · 13–16 minutes · Hai Ba Trung, then the small coast lane. Tan Thanh is the stretch just south of An Bang, and it has a different mood: more coffee shops and small bars, fewer seafood halls, and most people sitting on the shore rather than in the water.

It suits a slow morning: breakfast, a laptop, an hour of reading with the sound of the sea, then home before the heat. The access lane runs parallel to the beach and is fine on two wheels but tight for cars, which is one more reason this is a scooter trip. There are fewer loungers and no continuous lifeguard line, so if you are travelling with children who want to swim, An Bang is the better call.

Cua Dai and the sea-wall works

5.3–5.9 km · 15–16 minutes · straight out along Cua Dai road. The spread in distance is real: Google drops the “Cua Dai Beach” pin at the northern end, while the river-mouth end by the pier is about 5.9 km. Cua Dai road itself is wide but carries tour buses and coaches, so ride to the right and let them pass.

Cua Dai used to be called the most beautiful beach in Hoi An, then lost a huge amount of sand to erosion over more than a decade. Today this shoreline is a work in progress. Two projects are rebuilding it. The larger one, budgeted at more than 982 billion dong (about €42 million), builds submerged breakwaters offshore between the river mouth by the Cham Islands pier and the Victoria resort, and pumps sand back onto the beach. By the end of May 2026 contractors had pumped more than 400,000 m³ of sand, about 60% of the work, and the Da Nang city portal had set September 2026 as the target to finish. A separate emergency sea wall, 1,950 m long across Hoi An Dong and Hoi An Tay wards, completed its outer works on 30 September 2026, and the city asked for the remaining inner works to be done by 15 October 2026, VietnamPlus reported. So in October 2026, expect some stretches to still be fenced off.

The pier for the Cham Islands speedboats is here too, so if you plan to go to the island, parking at Cua Dai makes sense; bikes do not go on the boats. Read the Cham Islands guide before you go, and our Cua Dai Beach guide for the seafood row and the best hour for photos.

Ha My: the quiet one

7.2 km · about 15 minutes · Hai Ba Trung, then left on Lac Long Quan. Less than three kilometres further than An Bang, and the number of people on the sand drops sharply. Ha My is a long, flat strip just north of the Hoi An line with clearer water and far fewer vendors.

The trade-off is service. There are a few resorts and a handful of small restaurants, but nothing like An Bang’s continuous row. If you want to lie on the sand undisturbed, this is the best choice within 10 km. If you need a freshwater shower, somewhere to leave a bag and a lifeguard in sight, choose An Bang.

Our Ha My Beach guide goes deeper on sunrise rides and where to swim.

Non Nuoc and My Khe: two Da Nang beaches

These two are no longer a half-afternoon trip, but both are an easy day ride and both use the same road: Lac Long Quan out of Hoi An, becoming the coastal boulevard into Da Nang.

Non Nuoc: 17.1 km, 30–33 minutes

Non Nuoc sits right at the foot of the Marble Mountains, so the sensible plan is to climb in the morning while it is cool and swim afterwards. The caves and pagodas take about two hours on foot. Park once, do both, and you have a full and easy day.

My Khe: 24.0 km, 40–43 minutes

My Khe is a real city beach: a wide paved promenade, stone benches, restaurants across the road and usually bigger waves than anything near Hoi An. Look north and the Son Tra peninsula fills the skyline. Our My Khe Beach guide has more on the city side of the trip.

Twenty-four kilometres each way is close to fifty for the day. For that we suggest a 125 cc scooter or bigger, not a 50 cc and not an e-bike; section 10 explains why.

Why Bai Rang is not on this list

The older version of this page, like many beach guides online, listed “Bai Rang, a hidden cove 12 km south of Hoi An”. That number does not survive a map. Type Bai Rang into Google Maps and ask for directions from our shop, and it sends you to Bai Rang at Tam Hai in Nui Thanh: 72.2 km, about 1 hour 23 minutes via Vo Chi Cong road. That is a full day out, not a beach afternoon.

If a distance in a travel article cannot be checked on a map in thirty seconds, check it before you fill the tank.

Bai Rang itself is worth seeing, and if you want to make that long ride, combine it with the fish market and the island in our Tam Tien and Tam Hai guide. Just do not plan it as a quick swim. We replaced it here with Tan Thanh and Ha My, which really are fifteen minutes away.

The three roads to the sea

There are three main ways to reach a Hoi An beach by motorbike, and picking the right road matters more than picking the bike.

If you want to join the beach to a bigger loop, our Hoi An motorbike route guide has six measured rides from the Old Town, and before you set off in the afternoon check the Old Town vehicle restriction hours so you know which streets are closed to engines on the way back.

Parking, valuables and small costs

This is the part other Hoi An beach by motorbike guides skip, and it is the part that annoys customers most.

• Bike parking is 5.000₫. That is the posted price at the guarded lots around An Bang. In practice you will often be asked for 10.000₫. Hand over 5.000₫ and ask for a ticket; most of the time that settles it.
• Take the ticket. A lot that does not give you a ticket is not a guarded lot, just a place to stop.
• Leave nothing in the seat box. A scooter’s under-seat storage is not a safe. Wallet, passport copy and room key go with you, ideally in a dry bag.
• Fold the mirrors when you park tight. In a full lot the mirror is the first thing to snap.
• Freshwater showers at An Bang are usually charged separately, a few thousand dong a go depending on the restaurant.

Lost a key, flat tyre or a bike that will not start? Our roadside line on +84 766 766 087 is answered around the clock, and none of the six beaches is more than 45 minutes from the shop.

Which bike for which Hoi An beach by motorbike trip

These are daily prices on our booking system, checked on 5 October 2026. Helmets are included with every motorbike and scooter.

Three things to know when you choose:

• Electric and 50 cc bikes have real limits. They are great within 10 km, but a headwind on the coast road drains a battery far faster than town riding does. Taking an e-bike to My Khe and back is a gamble.
• Two people? Do not take the cheapest bike. The extra 60.000₫ for a Vision or Air Blade buys you a seat that fits two, more power on the coast road and a bigger seat box for towels.
• Sand and salt are hard on bikes. Park on the paved lot, not on the sand, where kickstands sink and bikes fall over.

If you are torn between two wheels and four, our piece on which vehicle is safest for the beach goes through it honestly. The full fleet, with photos, is on our motorbike rental in Hoi An page.

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Season, sea and time of day

The beaches are there all year, but the sea is not always swimmable. Broadly, the calm swimming months run from spring through summer. From around late September to the end of the year, the north-east wind and the storm season bring rough water, and red flags are common, especially at An Bang and Cua Dai. That is the season we are in as this is updated, so check the flag before you go in, and on a red-flag day treat the trip as a coffee by the sea rather than a swim.

In the rainy months, also look at our Hoi An flood season guide: a heavy night of rain can leave low roads near the river under water for a morning, while the beach roads on higher ground stay open.

Time of day matters just as much:

• Sunrise to 8:00: the best light, the fishing boats coming in, empty sand. Ha My and An Bang are both beautiful.
• 10:00 to 15:00: the hottest and harshest hours. Little natural shade on the rebuilt stretches; skip unless you are under an umbrella.
• 15:30 to sunset: the swimming hour for locals, softer light, busiest at An Bang.

In summer, look at our beach festivals near Hoi An calendar too; a few evenings a year the beach roads get very full.

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Distances and times were measured on Google Maps directions from 84 Phan Chau Trinh, Hoi An, on 5 October 2026, using the fastest route offered; times change with traffic. Rental prices are the daily rates on our booking system on the same date and can change by season; your quote comes by message. Information about the coastal protection works comes from the Da Nang city portal and VietnamPlus (30 September 2026).