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Alicante or Hanoi?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Explanada de España, Alicante
Alicante

Photo: Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License

The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
Hanoi

Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

AlicanteHanoi
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 76 points.76
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 18 points.18
Culture & sights. Hanoi leads by 26 points.26
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 10 points.10
Nature & outdoors. Alicante leads by 11 points.11
Day trips. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
Good for families. Alicante leads by 33 points.33
Getting around. Alicante leads by 30 points.30
Shopping & style. Hanoi leads by 6 points.6
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 38 points.38
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi leads by 3 points.3
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 6 points.6
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Hanoi.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyAlicanteHanoi
Daytime high30 °C34 °C
Night-time low21 °C27 °C
Rainfall in the month3 mm311 mm
Sunshine11 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperature25 °CNo sea
Daylight15 hours a day13 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4

Where the figures come from

Hanoi's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Phu Lien.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteHanoi
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
PraguePRG
2 h 45 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
10 h 25 m
€612-704
1 stop
HAN · 22 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteHanoi
Official languageSpanishVietnamese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dong (VND)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteHanoi
City population366,2218,717,600
People per km²1,8192,595
Museums within 10 km814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.