Kitesurfing season in Phan Rang: My Hoa and the wind months

The wind season here is the north-east monsoon, roughly November to March, and it blows hardest and steadiest in December and January, the months the Vietnamese call the gió bấc, the north wind. Ninh Thuan television counts up to six consecutive months of stable wind at Mỹ Hòa, and Dan Tri calls the north-wind season the strongest on this coast. That beach, on the DT702 coast road north of Ninh Chử, is the place: over 4 km of flat sand, about waist-deep at high tide, with rock outcrops that take the gusts and the swell out of the water.

What I cannot give you is a price. Dan Tri counted four kite centres in My Hoa hamlet in 2019, staffed by internationally certified instructors and using imported gear, with 96 percent of the riders foreign, but no lesson price for any of them is published anywhere I could find. The only local figure is the InterContinental Nha Trang’s 2026 guide at USD 50 an hour for Bai Dai, which is a hotel’s number for a different beach.

Why is the driest corner also the windiest?

I am not a meteorologist, so here is what the station tables show rather than a theory. The same north-east monsoon that drops 332 mm on Nha Trang in November leaves Phan Rang with 171 mm, and by February the Phan Rang figure is 2.8 mm, the driest month in the country, on a plain that gets 838.5 mm a year and 3,029 hours of sun. The wind arrives; most of the rain does not. On the beach that means a season with the kites up and the sky still blue, which is not how the kite months feel at Nha Trang. Khanh Hoa month by month has the whole province’s tables side by side.

Month	Rain at Phan Rang	Rain at Nha Trang	Sunshine at Phan Rang	Wind, from the kite sources
November	171.0 mm	332 mm	189.7 h	Season starting; typhoon window open until about 10 December
December	83.6 mm	153 mm	189.4 h	North wind, the strongest of the year
January	8.8 mm	38 mm	241.7 h	North wind, the strongest of the year
February	2.8 mm	16 mm	255.2 h	Still steady
March	12.0 mm	31 mm	278.5 h	Tailing off

Where exactly is My Hoa?

In My Hoa hamlet of Vĩnh Hải commune, on DT702 between Ninh Chu and the Thái An grape village, which puts it on the southern part of the Nui Chua coast road. The kite centres are on the beach road. The beach is long and flat, and shallow enough that a learner can stand a long way out at high water, which is why the schools chose it; the rock formations block the gusts and the offshore waves, which is why the wind stays usable. The Kiteboard Tour Asia association has said the beach could host international-class events, and the provincial television station reported in February 2024 that an international competition has been held here. I have watched from the sand more than I have ridden, and on a good December morning there were more kites in the air than people on the beach.

What do the schools charge?

I do not know, and I would rather say so than guess. The centres Dan Tri counted in 2019 were there when I last rode past; whether all four still operate, and under what names, I could not confirm from any published page, so write to one before you fly in with kiting as the whole plan. A USD 350, 17-hour course price that search results attach to My Hoa comes from an article about a Mũi Né school, so ignore it. For a sense of scale, the only local figure is the InterContinental Nha Trang’s 2026 guide, which puts lessons at Bai Dai on the Cam Ranh coast from around USD 50 an hour including equipment; that is a hotel’s marketing number for another beach, not a school’s price list. I have written that beach up in Bai Dai in the wind season. If you have your own gear, My Hoa is a free public beach.

What about Ninh Chu itself?

Ninh Chu is the town beach of Phan Rang, about 8 km east of the centre, and the southern end of the kite coast that runs north to My Hoa. I never found kiting at Ninh Chu itself separately confirmed, and the schools are at My Hoa. What Ninh Chu has is the beds and the food. It is a domestic-resort beach with hotels along the front and seafood restaurants serving the day’s catch at roughly 50,000 to 150,000 VND a dish by Wikivoyage’s figure. Wikivoyage lists the Sai Gon-Ninh Chu Hotel as the established four-star at roughly USD 50 to 200 a night, and there are cheaper places behind the front. On weekdays it is quiet; at weekends Phan Rang comes out to it. In the wind months the sea here is rough and swimming is poor, so think of it as the base, not the beach.

Ninh Chu has been a ward of its own since 1 July 2025, under the resolution signed on 16 June, formed from Van Hai ward and Khanh Hai town, and the merged province’s strategy names it, with the North Cam Ranh peninsula, as a national tourism zone. Nothing of that shows on the sand yet.

What does a non-kiter do in the wind months?

More than in Nha Trang, because it is dry. The same months are the moss season at Hang Rai, further up DT702, where the coral shelf goes green from December to about March and the north wind sends the swell over it for the waterfall photograph. The grape gardens crop again in December to January for Tết. The Cham towers at Po Klong Garai are best in the cool early mornings these months give. And the dunes at Nam Cương and Mui Dinh are walkable in the mornings when they are punishing in May. The one caution is at the front end of the calendar: the typhoon window runs from early September to about 10 December, so a November trip can meet a storm that a January one will not.

Field note: the wind at My Hoa starts before the light and does not stop for lunch. The restaurants on the Ninh Chu front are where the riders end up at dusk, salt-stiff and hungry, and the seafood there is cheap by any coast’s standard.

What I’d do

1. Come between mid-December and February, on weekdays, and sleep at Ninh Chu.
2. Write to a My Hoa centre before booking flights, because the prices are not published and I cannot confirm which schools are open in a given season.
3. Ride out to My Hoa on DT702 each morning; kite, or watch.
4. Hang Rai at sunrise on the calmest morning of the stay, on a low tide, for the moss.
5. One inland day: the Cham towers early, the grape gardens after, goat hotpot in Phan Rang at night.

If your dates fall before about 10 December, watch the typhoon forecast; after that, the wind is the only weather you are likely to get.