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8 places with live music in Nha Trang

Rating: 4.0 / 5 — Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

Our own score, not an average of guest reviews

Eight places with a band or an acoustic set. Only two say which nights

City centre

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Address
Spread across the city. Biet Thu, Dong Da, Bach Dang and Tran Khanh Du in town; Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Pham Van Dong, Bui Thien Ngo and the river island of Con Ngoc Thao outside it
Opening hours
The three cafés close at 22:00. Men Tươi 16:00–23:00, Pallet to about 22:00, The Junkyard 17:00–01:00 but only Friday to Monday. JD68 publishes no hours; The Pumm runs 17:00–01:00
Price range
Mid (100k – 500k)
Best time to go
Evenings from about 19:00. Weekends are likelier than weekdays

Overview

Live music here does not run to a schedule. All eight places below have a band or someone playing acoustic, but only two can tell you which nights. Moonlight Chill Coffee says Friday to Sunday evenings, and The Pumm Central has music every night. Nhà Ven Sông says weekends. At Hòn Kiến the name promises live music and in the evening it delivers. The three beer places say only "some evenings". So this page does not tell you who is playing tonight. Nobody publishes that.

The eight split into three kinds, and the price follows the kind rather than the music, with The Pumm Central a late bar that sits outside all three. JD68 Skybar is a rooftop bar at 09 Biệt Thự in the middle of the backpacker quarter, with live music written into its own name. The three craft-beer places are The Junkyard, Men Tươi and Pallet Beer Station, all open from the afternoon. The three cafés are Hòn Kiến at 56 Đống Đa, Nhà Ven Sông on the river island, and Moonlight Chill on Phạm Văn Đồng.

Closing time decides more than you would think. The three cafés close at 22:00, so if the music is the point you need to be in before 20:00 to hear any of it. The beer places run later: Men Tươi to 23:00, Pallet to about 22:00, The Junkyard to 1am. But the Junkyard only opens Friday to Monday and shuts Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, so check the day before you set out. And Maps publishes no hours at all for JD68.

Four of them are walkable from the centre. JD68 is inside the quarter itself. Hòn Kiến at 56 Đống Đa is about 700 m away. The Junkyard at 33 Bạch Đằng and Men Tươi at 19 Trần Khánh Dư are one to one and a half kilometres. The other four need a vehicle: Pallet at 68A Bùi Thiện Ngộ in the south of the city, Moonlight on Phạm Văn Đồng by the Hòn Chồng shore, The Pumm at 312 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai well inland, and Nhà Ven Sông at the end of alley 007 on the island of Cồn Ngọc Thảo, about 4 km from the quarter.

On price, exactly one of them publishes anything. The Junkyard keeps a chalkboard listing each beer with its strength and price, 70,000–100,000₫ a glass. The other seven post no board at all. A listing site puts The Pumm Central at 200,000–300,000₫ a head, but that is the listing's figure rather than the shop's own. And none of them says whether a music night carries a cover charge or a minimum spend. Ask at the door before you sit down, especially at a weekend.

If you want to talk, two of them suit that better than the rest. Hòn Kiến is not loud, the music is well chosen, and an artificial waterfall runs inside the room. Men Tươi is acoustic guitar, long wooden tables and a lit wall stacked with bottles. JD68 is a rooftop bar, the Junkyard and Pallet both have a band playing in the room, and The Pumm adds a DJ, so those four are considerably louder.

Some shops, with addresses

  • JD68 Skybar Live music

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    09 Biet Thu, Nha Trang

    4.9★ Google · 374 reviews

    09 Biệt Thự, upstairs, in the middle of the backpacker quarter. The place puts Live music in its own name, which sets it apart from the hotel rooftops on this page, where what is being sold is the view. It publishes no opening hours and no prices. Since it is upstairs with no large sign at street level, the reliable move is to stand below and look up for lights and sound before climbing.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Hòn Kiến Coffee — Live Music

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    56 Đống Đa, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.8★ Google · 2,107 reviewsOpen 6:30 – 22:00

    56 Dong Da. The name promises live music and in the evening it delivers, but the room is the more memorable part: baskets of shells and starfish from the door inwards, and an artificial waterfall running inside. It is not loud and the music is well chosen. You can hold a conversation. It opens at 6:30 so mornings work, but if the music is the point it has to be evening; the place closes at 22:00.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • The Junkyard

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    33 Bach Dang, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.9★ Google · 173 reviews70,000 – 100,000₫

    33 Bạch Đằng, open 17:00 to 1am but only Friday through Monday. It closes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, so check the day before you set out. This is a properly committed craft bar: a chalkboard listing each beer with its strength and price, 70,000–100,000₫ a glass. Cheapest is its own Go-Go Golden Ale at 4.1%, dearest the Juicy Lucy Hazy IPA at 7.5%. Geometric murals, a row of taps behind the bar, live music some evenings.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Men Tươi — bia thủ công

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    19 Tran Khanh Du, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.7★ Google · 158 reviewsOpen 16:00 – 23:00

    19 Trần Khánh Dư, open 16:00–23:00. The sign outside reads "Tối cổ — craft beer", and inside there is a lit wall stacked with bottles, long wooden tables and a bright mural. It works mostly by the bottle, so you can line a few up and compare; the food is light: peanuts, salads, fried things. Some evenings someone plays acoustic guitar.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Nhà Ven Sông concept

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    End of alley 007, Con Ngoc Thao, P. Tay Nha Trang (Vinh Ngoc former), Khanh Hoa

    4.9★ Google · 1,037 reviewsOpen 7:00 – 22:00

    On the river island of Cồn Ngọc Thảo, about 4 km from the tourist quarter. The busiest café outside the centre. An open-sided room facing a coconut garden and the water, with live music at weekends. More on the cafés-with-a-view page.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • Pallet Beer Station

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    68A Bui Thien Ngo, southern Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    4.3★ Google · 60 reviewsOpen 16:00 – 22:00

    68A Bùi Thiện Ngộ in the south of the city, open late afternoon to about 22:00. A small room. A warm yellow "PALLET BEER STATION" sign, tables inside and out on the pavement, and on some evenings a saxophone and guitar playing in the corner. The kitchen does fish-sauce chicken, salmon, sea grapes and other things to pick at. It is new and little known, so there is usually a free table.

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  • Moonlight Chill Coffee

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    Pham Van Dong, north Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

    3.6★ Google · 85 reviews

    On Pham Van Dong beside the Hòn Chồng shore, facing the water. A sunrise spot, not a sunset one. Live music Friday to Sunday evenings. Service is the weak point.

    Reference photos from sources on the internet.

  • The Pumm Central

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    312 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Nha Trang ward, Khanh Hoa

    Open 17:00 – 1:00

    312 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, well inland rather than on the beach road. It is also not the same kind of place as the other seven: a large room with a stage and an LED wall across its full width, with the band up on a lit stage rather than one person with a guitar in the corner. It is the only place here with both a DJ and a band on the same night, and the only one with music every night rather than some evenings. Open 17:00 to 1am, the same closing time as The Junkyard but without the midweek days off. Around 200,000–300,000₫ a head. The number is 096 401 7768. More on the bars and clubs page.

    Photo supplied by The Pumm Central

Addresses come from each shop's own Google Maps listing, and the Open map button opens that shop's pin rather than running a search. 18 shops on the site have no listing we could confirm, so they have no button: the address lookup returned a different business, and a button that points at the wrong place is worse than none. A Google score appears only when Maps carries both the score and the number of reviews — a bare average cannot be weighed, so this page leaves it out. Street-food stalls change hours and close without telling anyone; call ahead if you are travelling across town.

Worth knowing

  • Only two can say which nights: Moonlight Chill and The Pumm
  • The Junkyard runs to 1am, but shuts Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
  • The three cafés close at 22:00, so come early if the music is the point

Practical tips

  • Call ahead to ask whether there is music tonight: five of the eight publish no schedule
  • Check the day before setting out for The Junkyard: it closes for three midweek days
  • JD68 has no hours on Maps, so look up from the street before going up
  • To hold a conversation pick Hòn Kiến or Men Tươi, not the three with a band in the room

Frequently asked

Which nights is there live music in Nha Trang?

There is no shared listing, and only two of them commit: Moonlight Chill Coffee has music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, and The Pumm Central runs a DJ and a band every night. Nhà Ven Sông says weekends. Hòn Kiến has it in the evenings. The three beer places say only "some evenings", and Maps does not even publish opening hours for JD68. For those four, calling is the only way to know.

Is there a charge for the music?

None of the eight publishes an entry price or a minimum spend, weekends included. The only one that posts drink prices is The Junkyard, at 70,000–100,000₫ a glass of craft beer. Since nobody publishes it, ask at the door before you sit down.

Which ones can I walk to from the backpacker quarter?

JD68 Skybar at 09 Biệt Thự is inside the quarter. Hòn Kiến at 56 Đống Đa is about 700 m. The Junkyard at 33 Bạch Đằng and Men Tươi at 19 Trần Khánh Dư are one to one and a half kilometres, walkable but a stretch in the rain. The other four need a vehicle.

What kind of music is it?

The data goes as far as the format and no further. Men Tươi is one person with an acoustic guitar. Pallet Beer Station has a saxophone and guitar in the corner of the room. JD68 puts live music in its own name, meaning a band rather than a DJ. The Pumm Central has both, a DJ and a band. The other four say only that there is live music. None of them publishes a genre or who is playing.

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