Bai Dai

Location and access

Bai Dai lies on the coast between Cam Ranh International Airport and Nha Trang, in what Vietnamese Wikipedia records as Cam Hai Dong commune of Cam Lam district, itself split from Cam Ranh town in 2007^[1]. The beach is reached along Nguyen Tat Thanh Boulevard, 10 km from Binh Tan Bridge, with a final stretch of more than 200 m of unpaved road down to the shore^[1].

OpenStreetMap maps the beach at 12.0500°N, 109.2083°E^[6], a point that a reverse lookup places within the present-day Cam Lam commune^[7], formed on 16 June 2025 under Resolution 1667/NQ-UBTVQH15 by merging Cam Duc town with the communes of Cam Hai Dong, Cam Hai Tay and Cam Thanh Bac and parts of several others^[2]. Wikidata's own entry for the beach is linked only to this Vietnamese Wikipedia article and gives Vietnam as its country^[8].

The sand is fine and clean, Vietnamese Wikipedia states, and about 30 temporary vendor shelters served visitors at the time its account was written^[1]. The beach sits beside the newer coast road from the airport to Nha Trang, near the Thuy Trieu white-sand industrial zone and the Diamond Bay development^[1]. No published figure for the length of the beach itself was found among the sources fetched for this article, though Vietnamese-language travel and property sites give estimates that range from about 10 to 20 km.

The North Cam Ranh Peninsula tourism zone

The coast around Bai Dai has been developed since 2004 as the Bac Ban Dao Cam Ranh (North Cam Ranh Peninsula) tourism zone. The government's own news portal records that the provincial People's Committee first approved the zone's master plan in early 2004, covering an area of about 2,300 ha^[3]. By early 2006, 58 domestic investors had registered projects there; by late April 2011, 30 projects held investment certificates, 27 of them east of Nguyen Tat Thanh Boulevard and 3 to its west, though only 7 had construction permits, 6 had completed compensation procedures and 17 remained in land clearance^[3]. At that point, 30 businesses had deposited over 540 billion VND in advance land-rent fees^[3].

The general plan was most recently adjusted by Decision 3352/QĐ-UBND, issued by the Khanh Hoa People's Committee on 17 December 2020, which set the area of the adjustment at 1,562.41 ha across zones 5, 6, 7 and part of zone 3, with a forecast population of about 97,700^[4]. The provincial paper Bao Khanh Hoa gives the same total and breaks it down as 590.7 ha in zone 5, 380.29 ha in zone 6, 367.98 ha in zone 7 and 223.44 ha in part of zone 3^[5]. The zone is bounded to the north by route N1b and Hon Troc mountain, to the west and south by Thuy Trieu lagoon, and to the east by Nguyen Tat Thanh Boulevard^[4].

Thuy Trieu lagoon and the tidal season

Thuy Trieu lagoon lies immediately behind the beach, forming the tourism zone's boundary to the west and south under the 2020 planning decision^[4]. No dedicated source describing the lagoon's own area or ecology was fetched for this article.

Vietnamese Wikipedia states that the tourist season at Bai Dai effectively runs for six months of the year, since for the other six the tide covers the bathing areas^[1].