Hue to Thai Nguyen Drive: Road Trip Tips & Info

Thái Nguyên ( listen) is a city and municipality in Vietnam. It is the capital and largest city of Thái Nguyên Province. The city is listed as a first class city and is the ninth largest city in Vietnam. It has long been famous throughout Vietnam for its tea. In 1959 it became the site of Vietnam's first steel mill, and is now home to a large and growing major regional university complex.

If you’re planning this same drive and want to know all about it – how long it is, how long it takes, and where to stop along the way – read on. By the end of this post, you’ll know everything about the drive between Hue and Thai Nguyen.

How far is Thai Nguyen from Hue?

As the crow flies, it’s roughly 372 miles between Hue and Thai Nguyen. Luckily, we can’t skip over all the good stuff and have to drive – that means seeing some of the sights and countryside between these two points.

For driving, it is roughly 454 miles or 730 km between Hue and Thai Nguyen. This may vary slightly depending on your start and end points.

Hue to Thai Nguyen drive hours

In terms of travel time by car, the 454 miles drive from Hue to Thai Nguyen takes 9 hours 57 minutes. Again, your final drive time depends on where you start in Hue and end in Thai Nguyen.

This is a really long drive, so it's not very realistic to drive nonstop. To get a better idea of how long this road trip would actually take, scroll down to calculate how many hours it would be if you drive with stops.

Hue to Thai Nguyen road trip

Realistically, you're not going to want to drive without stopping all the way from Hue to Thai Nguyen, especially if you're the main driver. So let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Thai Nguyen, and you need to stop along the way to rest. Plus if it's a real road trip, you might want to check out interesting stops along the way, eat at great restaurants, and find a hotel to stay overnight. That's what we are perfect for, helping you figure out travel plans in detail.

Based on the length of this trip, we think you could spread out this fun road trip over a number of days.

Road trip: 2 days of driving

With the full itinerary planned out, we can estimate your total travel time for this trip.

Travel time: 9 hours 57 minutes hours on the road with 2 overnights

Itinerary

Start at Hue.

Drive for about 3 hours, then stop in Quốc lộ 1A, QL.1A and stay for about 2 hours. Next, drive for another 4 hours then stop in Quốc lộ 1A, QL.1A. Stay overnight.

Finally, drive for about 2.9 hours and arrive in Thai Nguyen.

Hue to Thai Nguyen airports and flights

To give you a better estimate of real-life travel, we've put together a flight itinerary with actual airports. Eventually you'll be able to customize this plan, choosing your own airports and flights. But for now, here's an example we've selected to give you an idea of how traveling might work between airports.

Departure airport: Phu Bai International Airport (HUI)

Arrival airport: Noi Bai International Airport (HAN)

With the airports selected, we can estimate the travel time to and from the airport, based on how far the airport is from downtown.

Getting to the airport: 18 minutes

Getting to your destination: 43 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from HUI to HAN and figure out how long it would take to fly including take-off and landing, and time to taxi on the runway.

Commercial flight time: 43 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Hue to Thai Nguyen including time spent getting to/from the airports, an estimated wait time of 2 hours at the airport for TSA security lines and waiting at the gate, and the actual flight itself.

Total travel time: 3 hours 44 minutes

Flying non-stop from Hue to Thai Nguyen

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Hue and Thai Nguyen. Because of the curvature of the Earth, the shortest distance is actually the "great circle" distance, or "as the crow flies" which is calculated using an iterative Vincenty formula.

Flight time from Hue, Thua Thien - Hue Province to Thai Nguyen, Thai Nguyen Province is 45 minutes under avarage conditions.

Our flight time calculator assumes an average flight speed for a commercial airliner of 500 mph, which is equivalent to 805 km/hr or 434 knots.

Actual flight times may vary depending on aircraft type, cruise speed, routing, weather conditions, passenger load, and other factors.