Food and markets · Vạn Thạnh, Nha Trang ward
Original name: Chợ Đầm
Nha Trang's central market in a round lotus-shaped building: dried seafood, fruit, household goods and souvenirs. A good stop to see the city's everyday trade.
The provincial tourism centre calls Chợ Đầm the city's largest market and its commercial symbol. The main building is shaped like a lotus flower 66.5 metres across, with a ring-shaped upper floor; the two levels total 5270 square metres and hold more than three thousand people at once. Street rows radiate from the round building. It sells household goods, clothing, souvenirs, dried fish and squid, spices and fruit.
Start with the round building: dried seafood and sweets on the ground floor, clothing and fabric above. Then walk the outer rows of fruit and food. The market is in the northern part of the centre, near the bridge to the Po Nagar towers, so it fits well after the towers or before Long Sơn Pagoda. You can wait out a downpour under its roof, so keep the market as a backup for a rainy day.
The tourism centre's page lists hours of 5:00–18:30; in the evening most rows close. Prices in the tourist rows are noticeably higher than at outlying markets: ask the price per kilo or per piece before weighing and compare two or three vendors. Check whether dried products can be taken into your home country.
Access, opening hours and prices can change. Confirm the conditions right before you pay or leave.
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21 September 2026
Before your visit
Nha Trang's central market in a round lotus-shaped building: dried seafood, fruit, household goods and souvenirs. A good stop to see the city's everyday trade.
Plan for roughly “1–2 hours”. Add time for the road, weather, queues and an unhurried break.
It belongs to the “Vạn Thạnh, Nha Trang ward” area. Open the map before leaving and check the actual entrance or meeting point.
Come in the morning for food and fruit, and after lunch for souvenirs, when vendors are more willing to bargain. Opening hours, prices, access and weather can change, so confirm them right before you leave or pay.