Lâm Đồng

Lâm Đồng, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, became the country’s biggest coffee province almost overnight. When Vietnam merged its provinces in June 2025, it absorbed the former Đắk Nông, another coffee province, and now holds about 327,000 hectares of coffee, more than 45% of the national total. Most of it is robusta, but the cool plateau around Đà Lạt grows some of Vietnam’s best-known arabica, at Cầu Đất.

The short version

• About 327,000 hectares, over 45% of Vietnam’s coffee.
• Over 1 million tonnes in 2025.
• Mostly robusta: about 90% of exports.
• Cầu Đất arabica at about 1,500 m, bright and floral.
• A protected origin, for arabica and robusta, since October 2025.

How much coffee does Lâm Đồng grow?

Figure	Value	Source
Area	About 327,000 ha	Tạp chí Kinh tế Tài chính, December 2025
Share of Vietnam’s coffee area	Over 45% (45.02%)	Tạp chí Kinh tế Tài chính; Báo Lâm Đồng
Output, 2025 (estimate)	Over 1 million tonnes	Tạp chí Kinh tế Tài chính; Báo Lâm Đồng
Share of Vietnam’s crop	About 45.49%	Tạp chí Kinh tế Tài chính
Share of Vietnam’s crop	50.49%	Báo Lâm Đồng

The two sources give the same area and output but different shares of the national crop, so we show both. The figures cover the enlarged province: the former Đắk Nông was merged into Lâm Đồng on 12 June 2025, Wikipedia records. Đắk Lắk, next door, still describes itself as the country’s largest coffee centre.

Cầu Đất and Lâm Đồng’s arabica

About 90% of Lâm Đồng’s coffee exports are robusta, Nhân Dân reports, and the other 10% is arabica, grown mainly on the Lâm Viên plateau around Đà Lạt. Sơn La in the north has more arabica land, but Nhân Dân singles out Cầu Đất, in Đà Lạt’s Xuân Trường ward:

• altitude about 1,500 metres, with a cool climate all year;
• temperatures of about 15–20 °C, suited to slow-growing arabica;
• a cup with bright, clean acidity and clear floral and fruit notes, different from many arabicas in the region.

Nhân Dân is also frank about the limits: experts rate most Vietnamese arabica as “quite good” rather than outstanding, and the best lots score 85–86 points, short of the 90-plus coffees of the world’s famous origins. Wikipedia notes that Lâm Viên, Di Linh and Bảo Lộc, the three highest plateaus of the Central Highlands, all lie in the province, at about 1,500 metres.

Lâm Đồng’s protected name

On 15 October 2025, Vietnam’s intellectual property office handed over the certificate for the “Lâm Đồng” geographical indication, covering arabica and robusta, as green coffee, roasted beans and ground coffee, Báo Lâm Đồng reported. The province plans to use it alongside its “Đà Lạt” place brand, Tạp chí Kinh tế Tài chính says.

When is it harvested?

From about October to January, like the rest of Vietnam’s Central Highlands, with most of the crop picked before Tết. USDA notes that rain fell below normal in Lâm Đồng and the other main coffee provinces from January to March 2026, and that farmers here increasingly intercrop coffee with durian, avocado, macadamia or pepper.

Lâm Đồng and other Vietnamese origins

• Coffee in Vietnam: the whole country, its harvest and its figures.
• Đắk Lắk: Buôn Ma Thuột robusta, protected since 2005.
• Sơn La: the north’s arabica.