Ngoan Muc Pass
The road off the Da Lat plateau: 766 m down in 16 km, nearly four times longer than the straight line.
16.2 km over the pass
What to ride
Three classes of machine actually rented in Da Lat. Each shows the model offered by the most rental shops - the one you are most likely to find free.
The road covers 766 m between its lowest and highest points. Nothing extreme, but engine size does make itself felt on a road like this.
What the road is like
From Da Lat the road only goes down, and its high point — 990 m — sits almost at the start. In all, 16.2 km of descent and 766 m down, at an average 4.7%. There is no straightening it out: 16.2 km of road cover 4.3 km in a straight line, and 10 turns sharper than 60° come one after another.
Measured 2026-09-07 from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and SRTM elevation data.
Know before you go
From the Da Lat side the road only goes down: 766 m in sixteen kilometres. Coming back is the same climb, and the plateau is noticeably cooler than the coast below - allow time, fuel and a layer for the return.
Elevation profile from SRTM data
When to ride
The top of the pass is still Da Lat weather: rain from May to October, an almost dry January. The bottom is another climate - the driest coast in Vietnam - and the road crosses between the two in sixteen kilometres.
Monthly rainfall in mm. September gets 283 mm — 31 times more than January with its 9 mm.
Long-term monthly averages for Da Lat (the top of the pass), Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology.
Where to get one in Da Lat
Photos: after Nguyễn Thanh Quang (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Toan Nguyen (CC BY 3.0), uncropped, Wikimedia Commons.