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Where it floods in Ho Chi Minh City.
Flooding decides which street you want to live on, not just which neighbourhood. Some streets in Ho Chi Minh City flood after almost every heavy downpour; others flood only when the Saigon River peaks at high tide, mostly from September to December. Every street on these maps has been reported flooding in Vietnamese or English news reports, or appears on an official city flood list, since 2024 — including streets that flood only briefly. Tap a street to see the evidence.
The flood maps, by neighbourhood and season
Thảo Điền
- Nguyễn Văn Hưởng
Floods in heavy rain and on every high tide above alert level I; 15–30 cm on the road, knee-deep in some alleys, water into homes. The road sits about 1 m below peak tide.
Sources: HTV, 18 Nov 2025 · Tuổi Trẻ, 20 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 22 Sep 2026
- Quốc Hương (around the Xuân Thủy junction)
About 300 m floods after almost every heavy rain; 30–50 cm reported, waist-deep in June 2026; worse when rain meets a high tide.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 4 Jun 2025 · SGGP, 8 Oct 2025 · VnExpress International, 16 Jun 2026 · Thanh Niên, 11 Sep 2026
- Lê Văn Miến
Named among the deeply flooded Thảo Điền streets on 8 Oct 2025.
Sources: Dân Trí, 8 Oct 2025
- Thảo Điền Street
A 270 m stretch floods in heavy rain, 10–40 cm, usually clearing in 1–2 hours; the road is below peak tide.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 5 Jun 2025 · SGGP, 8 Oct 2025 · HCMC media centre, 23 Sep 2026
- Tống Hữu Định
Flooded deeply in the heavy rain of 8 Oct 2025, near Thảo Điền bridge.
Sources: Dân Trí, 8 Oct 2025 · SGGP, 8 Oct 2025
- Xuân Thủy
Floods deeply in heavy rain and at tide peaks; motorbikes stall.
Sources: Phụ Nữ, 6 Nov 2025 · VnExpress, 15 Jun 2026 · Tiền Phong, 16 Sep 2026
Phú Mỹ Hưng
- Bùi Văn Ba alleys 53 and 67
About 1 m in the alleys after rain followed by a morning high tide (Oct 2024). An alley upgrade was due by Apr 2025; completion not confirmed.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 18 Oct 2024 · Tuoi Tre News, 18 Oct 2024
- Huỳnh Tấn Phát
At spring tides water rises through the drains: nearly half a metre, worst at the Phú Thuận street junction; long traffic jams.
Sources: VnExpress, Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 6 Nov 2025 · Tuổi Trẻ, 21 Nov 2025
- Nguyễn Lương Bằng at Ông Đội bridge / Hoàng Quốc Việt junction
Over the wheels, up to the seat at the Nov 2025 peak; about half a wheel in Sep 2026.
Sources: Tiền Phong, Nov 2025 · Znews, 23 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 13 Sep 2026
- Phạm Hữu Lầu (near Road 15B / D1)
About 400 m floods at every spring tide, above knee height at peaks.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 18 Nov 2025 · VTV, 7 Dec 2025 · Thanh Niên, 13 Sep 2026
- Trần Xuân Soạn (along Kênh Tẻ)
Floods at least twice a month all year at high tide, worst Sep–Dec: 20–30 cm, up to half a metre at peaks, over 1 km at a time, worst under Tân Thuận bridge. Road-raising planned but not built; the city tide barrier (due Nov 2026) may help.
Sources: Dân Trí, 12 Sep 2026 · Thanh Niên, 13 Sep 2026 · Tuổi Trẻ, 6 Nov 2025
- Lê Văn Lương (near Phú Mỹ Hưng)
Flooded deeply from the drains at spring tides; 15–30 cm on the city list.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 5 Dec 2025 · Znews, 23 Nov 2025
- Nguyễn Thị Thập and Road 41
Nearly wheel-deep in rain plus tide; water from the drains at spring tides.
Sources: NLĐ, 7 Nov 2025 · VietnamPlus, 29 Oct 2023
- Nguyễn Văn Linh at Nguyễn Thị Thập
Nearly half a wheel deep early in the evening tide peak.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 30 Nov 2025 · VnExpress, 17 Oct 2024
- Nguyễn Văn Linh – Nguyễn Hữu Thọ underpass
The guide says this underpass floods reliably and badly. News reports found only one episode: 30–40 cm over 50 m in Feb 2025 after heavy rain with blocked drains, cleared the same day, with no flooding reported since. Not drawn pending review.
Sources: SGGP, 13 Feb 2025 · NLĐ, 18 Feb 2025
- Nguyễn Văn Quỳ
Tide water into homes for 3+ hours in alley 184.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 22 Oct 2025 · Thanh Niên, 18 Nov 2025
- Phú Thuận street (Huỳnh Tấn Phát to Cao Thị Chính)
About half a wheel deep at spring tides.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 18 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 21 Nov 2025
- Road 15B and Road D1 (to Era Town)
Floods regularly at high tide; the D1 stretch into Era Town floods deeply.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 18 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 6 Nov 2025
- Bùi Bằng Đoàn ("Little Korea"), inside Phú Mỹ Hưng
Rare inside the planned zone: over half a wheel after heavy rain on 27 May 2024 (reported as the first time), and deep at the record tides of Nov 2025, when water also stood on Phạm Văn Nghị, Tôn Dật Tiên by Crescent Lake and inside Sky Garden 3.
Sources: Tiền Phong, 27 May 2024 · Znews, 28 May 2024 · Znews, 23 Nov 2025
District 1
- Bùi Viện
About 800 m, Trần Hưng Đạo to Cống Quỳnh, floods in heavy rain: 20–30 cm, nearly half a metre at the Cống Quỳnh end.
Sources: VnExpress, 8 Nov 2025 · Dân Trí, 23 Sep 2026 · Thanh Niên, 23 Sep 2026
- Calmette (both ends of Calmette bridge)
Low road: floods on both sides of Calmette bridge at high tide as water backs up through the drains (15–30 cm), worse with rain. The city tide-barrier project, due Nov 2026, may ease this.
Sources: Tiền Phong, 31 Oct 2023 · Dân Trí, 8 Nov 2025 · Tuổi Trẻ, 20 Nov 2025
- Cống Quỳnh
Floods when heavy rain exceeds the drains’ design capacity (Oct–Nov 2025, Sep 2026).
Sources: Thanh Niên, 13 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 15 Dec 2025
- Lê Lai
Floods when heavy rain exceeds the drains’ design capacity (Oct–Nov 2025, Sep 2026).
Sources: Thanh Niên, 13 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 15 Dec 2025
- Lê Lợi
Almost the whole street toward the Opera House floods in heavy rain, over 30 cm on 23 Sep 2026.
Sources: VnExpress, 23 Sep 2026 · Tuổi Trẻ, 14 Jun 2024
- Nguyễn Thái Bình
Badly flooded with Calmette in heavy rain plus tide.
Sources: Dân Trí, 8 Nov 2025 · Tuổi Trẻ, 29 Oct 2023
- Pasteur (Hàm Nghi to Lê Thánh Tôn)
Nearly half a wheel to knee-deep, worst at the Tôn Thất Thiệp junction.
Sources: VnExpress, 23 Sep 2026 · Thanh Niên, 23 Sep 2026
- Phạm Ngũ Lão
Floods when heavy rain exceeds the drains’ design capacity (Oct–Nov 2025, Sep 2026).
Sources: Thanh Niên, 13 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 15 Dec 2025
- Trần Đình Xu
Floods when heavy rain exceeds the drains’ design capacity (Oct–Nov 2025, Sep 2026).
Sources: Thanh Niên, 13 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, 15 Dec 2025
- Hàm Nghi
About 300 m at junctions and bus stops flooded on 23 Sep 2026; drain upgrade under way.
Sources: VnExpress, 23 Sep 2026
- Lê Thánh Tôn
On the city list of streets that flood in rain; water usually clears within 30 minutes.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Lê Thị Riêng
On the city list of streets that flood in rain; water usually clears within 30 minutes.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Nguyễn Cư Trinh
On the city list of streets that flood in rain; water usually clears within 30 minutes.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Nguyễn Trãi
On the city list of streets that flood in rain; water usually clears within 30 minutes.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Phạm Viết Chánh
On the city list of streets that flood in rain; water usually clears within 30 minutes.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Trương Định
On the city list of streets that flood in rain; water usually clears within 30 minutes.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
Bình Thạnh
- Bình Quới road and the Thanh Đa peninsula
The worst tidal flooding in the area: 15–30 cm on the road at alert-level tides, and 40 cm to 1 m inside homes in the record tides of Oct 2025, where the unfinished embankment lets water in. One of three severe points the city aims to fix in 2026.
Sources: VnExpress, 24 Oct 2025 · Tuổi Trẻ, 8 Nov 2025 · SGGP, 5 Dec 2025 · Tuổi Trẻ, 10 Sep 2026
- Bạch Đằng (Bình Thạnh)
Still flooded at 8:30 pm after the rain of 22 Sep 2026.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 22 Sep 2026 · Thanh Niên, 22 Sep 2026
- D5
Floods within 10–30 minutes of heavy rain; water still above motorbike wheels at 7:30 pm on 22 Sep 2026.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Dân Trí, 23 Sep 2026
- Nguyễn Gia Trí
25 cm over 180 m for nearly 3 hours (Oct 2024); whole road surface under water on 10 Sep 2026.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, 10 Sep 2026
- Nguyễn Văn Thương
Almost the whole road under water in heavy rain, nearly wheel-deep.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 10 Sep 2026 · Thanh Niên, 22 Sep 2026
- Nguyễn Xí (lanes off it)
The guide reports lanes off Nguyễn Xí flooding ankle-to-knee in the tidal surge; news reports place deep flooding at the Nguyễn Xí / Đinh Bộ Lĩnh junction.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 23 Sep 2026
- Tân Cảng
Named among the worst-hit roads in the heavy rain of Sep 2026; motorbikes stalled.
Sources: Dân Trí, 22 Sep 2026
- Ung Văn Khiêm
Many stretches under water in heavy rain, nearly covering a motorbike wheel.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 10 Sep 2026 · Dân Trí, 10 Sep 2026 · Thanh Niên, 22 Sep 2026
- Xô Viết Nghệ Tĩnh (Thị Nghè bridge to Hàng Xanh)
Flooded in the heavy rains of 10 and 23 Sep 2026; localised flooding at the Hàng Xanh intersection; mid-calf in alley 405 with water entering homes.
Sources: Dân Trí, 10 Sep 2026 · HTV, 23 Sep 2026 · SGGP, 22 Sep 2026
- Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (at Nguyễn Xí and the old Miền Đông bus station)
30–40 cm after 30–50 mm of rain; motorbikes fall. Also half a wheel at the foot of Đinh Bộ Lĩnh bridge.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 11 Jun 2026 · Tuổi Trẻ, 23 Sep 2026 · VietNamNet, 23 Sep 2026
- Đặng Thùy Trâm
Floods even in light rain; a road upgrade was approved in Oct 2025.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 30 Oct 2025
District 3
- Nguyễn Thiện Thuật
On the city rain list in 2024 and 2026; water clears within 30 minutes. The only District 3 street on current official lists.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 15 Oct 2024 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
An Phú & Thủ Thiêm
- An Phú interchange underpass
Opened Feb 2026 and has flooded twice: about 0.5 m over 300 m after 120 mm of rain on 10 Sep 2026, closing the tunnel. Temporary pumps; stayed dry on 18 Sep 2026.
Sources: VnExpress, 11 Sep 2026 · Thanh Niên, 15 Sep 2026 · Tuổi Trẻ, 18 Sep 2026
- Lương Định Của (near the Trần Não roundabout)
Floods 30–60 cm and slowly drains; flooded for more than 10 days running in September 2026, with hidden potholes.
Sources: Nhân Dân, 6 Nov 2025 · Tuổi Trẻ, 23 Sep 2026 · Kênh14, 25 Sep 2026
- Mai Chí Thọ at the An Phú junction
10–25 cm on high tides, water surging up from manholes; more than half a wheel in rain plus tide.
Sources: Người Đô Thị, 20 Nov 2025 · SGGP, 8 Oct 2025
- R12 at the Thủ Thiêm end of Ba Son bridge
A new flood point: about half a wheel deep after heavy rain; drainage unfinished and the road has sunk.
Sources: Tuổi Trẻ, 24 Sep 2026 · VnExpress, 22 Sep 2026
- Road 12, An Khánh (first 200 m from Trần Não)
About 30 cm over 200 m in heavy rain.
Sources: HCMC media centre, 17 May 2025
- Võ Nguyên Giáp (toward Saigon Bridge)
On the city tide list (10–25 cm); the listed stretch runs from the toll station toward Saigon Bridge, which the sources do not pin down precisely, so it is not drawn.
Sources: Người Đô Thị, 20 Nov 2025
District 4
- Tôn Thất Thuyết (along Kênh Tẻ)
Floods at high tide and in heavy rain: about 40 cm, knee-high in lanes; flooded even in the April 2025 dry season. A widening and canal-park project is targeted for 2028–29.
Sources: Znews, 4 Apr 2025 · VnExpress, 10 Oct 2022 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Hoàng Diệu
On the 2026 city list; about 40 cm at high tide in 2019.
Sources: Thanh Niên, Jun 2026 · Tuổi Trẻ, 29 Sep 2019
- Đoàn Văn Bơ
Several sections flood 15–25 cm within 30 minutes of heavy rain with tide; water into low-floored homes, despite repeated upgrades.
Sources: Thanh Niên, 5 Nov 2025 · Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Tân Vĩnh
On the 2026 city list of streets that regularly flood in rain; no depth published.
Sources: Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Vĩnh Hội
On the 2026 city list of streets that regularly flood in rain; no depth published.
Sources: Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
- Xóm Chiếu
On the 2026 city list of streets that regularly flood in rain; no depth published.
Sources: Thanh Niên, Jun 2026
How to use this before you sign a lease
“Ask your landlord specifically which streets near the property flood. Ask what height the water reaches. The honest ones will tell you.”
Going Global · Ho Chi Minh City, First Edition
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What is changing
The city’s tide-barrier project is due for completion in November 2026 and may reduce tidal flooding. Several drainage projects, including in Thảo Điền, are under way. We re-check this map as new reports come in; last checked 27 September 2026.
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