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Barcelona 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 Sagrada Família, Barcelona
Barcelona

Photo: Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
Hanoi

Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices and wellness 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.

BarcelonaHanoi
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 69 points.69
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Barcelona leads by 14 points.14
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 32 points.32
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona leads by 20 points.20
Day trips. Barcelona leads by 22 points.22
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 41 points.41
Getting around. Barcelona leads by 44 points.44
Shopping & style. Barcelona leads by 25 points.25
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 54 points.54
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona leads by 30 points.30
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 8 points.8
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona 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
JulyBarcelonaHanoi
Daytime high28 °C34 °C
Night-time low21 °C27 °C
Rainfall in the month27 mm311 mm
Sunshine10 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperature24 °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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M
A
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A
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Daytime high, °C
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaHanoi
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
3 h 50 m
€224-243
HAN · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 25 m
€198-215
HAN · 22 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€194-215
HAN · 22 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 30 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€117-131
HAN · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 30 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€205-211
HAN · 22 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
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

MeasureBarcelonaHanoi
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
Elevation9 m10 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaHanoi
City population1,731,6498,717,600
People per km²17,0942,595
Museums within 10 km9514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.