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Driving in Vietnam
The rules of the road as our desk recorded them, native unit first.
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50 / 80 / 120 km/h · 31 / 50 / 75 mph
urban / rural / motorway
Required · Vienna 1968
Vietnam recognises the 1968 Vienna convention permit only, and it must be paired with a matching home licence category. Renting a motorbike on a car licence is uninsured riding, which is how most claims get refused.
0.00% - absolute zero tolerance since 2019, with heavy on-the-spot fines
Tolls on the newer expressways (Hanoi–Hải Phòng, Saigon–Long Thành); cash or the ePass sticker.
Not required by day.
Required for under-tens in the front seat under the 2024 traffic law; rental stock is limited.
Renting a car with a driver costs little more than renting one alone and removes the licence problem entirely. City motorbike traffic moves as a flow - pedestrians cross at a slow constant pace and let it part around them.