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Ho Chi Minh City astrocartography

Ho Chi Minh City sits at 10.82°N, 106.6°E, inside the tropics, where the sun passes directly overhead twice a year and the seasons are told by rain rather than by light. Which of your planetary lines fall near it, and how closely, depends entirely on when and where you were born.

Ho Chi Minh City, before any chart

Position
10.82°N, 106.6°E
northern hemisphere, tropical latitudes
Lines that can reach it
All forty
A body more than 79.2° from the celestial equator never rises or sets here
Longest day
12 hours 38 minutes
At the summer solstice
Time zone
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Clocks run 7 minutes behind the local sun

In short

No planetary line belongs to Ho Chi Minh City. The lines that cross it are yours, and they are different for every birth moment, two people born days apart get different readings for the same street. What is true of Ho Chi Minh City for everyone is its geometry: at 10.82°N, every one of the ten bodies rises and sets here, so all forty lines can reach it.

Which of your lines reach Ho Chi Minh City?

◆ A place has no fixed character

Any page telling you Ho Chi Minh City is universally a “Jupiter city” is describing something that does not exist. The lines that cross it are different for every person born. The reading below is the only way to know which of yours reach here.

Do any of your lines reach Ho Chi Minh City?

Three things, and the reading is yours. It runs on this device and is not kept.

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What Ho Chi Minh City’s position does to a reading

Astrocartography is geometry before it is anything else, so where a city sits changes how it behaves. These are facts about Ho Chi Minh City rather than about you, they hold whoever is reading.

How close is close, here

Distances here are measured as real ground: one degree of orb is 111 km, the same width everywhere on earth. Ho Chi Minh City sits close enough to the equator that a degree of longitude is also about 109 km, so our figures and those of older software that measures overhead lines in longitude will agree closely.

Every line can reach this latitude

A rising or setting line is a horizon curve, and it exists only where the body actually crosses the horizon. At 10.82°N that means a body within 79.2° of the celestial equator. All ten bodies stay inside that, so every one of the forty lines can pass through Ho Chi Minh City’s latitude. Nothing here is ruled out by geometry, only by your own chart.

The same geometry, in daylight

The equation behind a rising line is the equation behind sunrise, so you can watch it work. At the summer solstice Ho Chi Minh City gets about 12 hours 38 minutes of daylight, and at the winter solstice about 11 hours 22 minutes. The further a place sits from the equator, the steeper that swing, and the more slanted its horizon lines run.

The clock against the sun

Overhead and underfoot lines are meridians, they depend on longitude, not on what a clock happens to show. Ho Chi Minh City sits almost exactly on its own zone’s meridian, so midday on the clock and midday by the sun agree to within a few minutes. Any planet standing overhead here has its opposite line running down the far meridian at 73.4°W, half a world away.

Places near Ho Chi Minh City

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Nothing else in the gazetteer sits within a degree of orb of Ho Chi Minh City, so a line that misses here misses on its own. These are the nearest places to weigh it against.

PlaceDistanceIn orb degrees
Da Nang astrocartography · Vietnam606 km5.44°
Bangkok astrocartography · Thailand741 km6.66°
Phuket astrocartography · Thailand961 km8.63°
Kuala Lumpur astrocartography · Malaysia1,014 km9.10°
Singapore astrocartography · Singapore1,098 km9.86°
Hanoi astrocartography · Vietnam1,138 km10.22°
Chiang Mai astrocartography · Thailand1,208 km10.85°
Hong Kong astrocartography · Hong Kong1,509 km13.56°

Line by line in Ho Chi Minh City

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How each one tends to behave here, if it happens to be one of yours.

Elsewhere in Vietnam

Questions

About Ho Chi Minh City

Which planetary lines run through Ho Chi Minh City?

That depends on the day, hour, and place you were born, lines are personal, and two people born days apart can have completely different ones crossing Ho Chi Minh City. Enter your birth details on this page to see which of yours pass nearby and how close they run.

Is Ho Chi Minh City a good place to live?

There is no universally good or difficult city. Ho Chi Minh City will hold some kinds of work and make others harder, depending on which of your lines reach it and how closely. Every line offers something and asks something in return, and we show both halves.

How close does a line have to be to Ho Chi Minh City to count?

We measure the distance from the city to the line as real ground, about 111 km to the degree, the same everywhere on earth. Inside roughly half a degree is a direct hit; out to about two degrees still reads. Because a degree of longitude at Ho Chi Minh City's latitude is only about 109 km, older software that measures overhead lines in longitude will quote a different figure for the same city.

Can every planetary line reach Ho Chi Minh City?

Yes. At 10.82°N every one of the ten bodies rises and sets, so all forty lines can pass through this latitude. Whether any of yours actually do is a question only your own chart answers.

Where exactly is Ho Chi Minh City?

Ho Chi Minh City sits at 10.8231° latitude, 106.6297° longitude, keeping Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh time, with a population of about 8,993,082. Those coordinates are the point every line distance on this page is measured from.

What if none of my lines are near Ho Chi Minh City?

Then we say so and leave it there. Most of the world is quiet ground for most charts, and a reading that finds something meaningful in every city on earth is not telling you anything. Quiet ground is not bad ground, it simply asks less of you.