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Cairo 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 pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
Hanoi

Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cairo
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on wellness and food and drink 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.

CairoHanoi
Beaches & swimming. Cairo leads by 4 points.4
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 25 points.25
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 24 points.24
Nightlife. Hanoi leads by 2 points.2
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi leads by 22 points.22
Day trips. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Good for families. Hanoi leads by 3 points.3
Getting around. Hanoi leads by 1 points.1
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 3 points.3
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 10 points.10
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 31 points.31
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo 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
JulyCairoHanoi
Daytime high36 °C34 °C
Night-time low23 °C27 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm311 mm
Sunshine12 hours a day6 hours a day
Daylight14 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
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. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCairoHanoi
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 30 m
€644-746
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
3 h 25 m
€198-215
HAN · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 55 m
€194-215
HAN · 22 km
Abu DhabiAUH
3 h 30 m
€191-269
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
6 h 50 m
€678-696
2 stops
HAN · 22 km
New DelhiDEL
5 h 50 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
4 h 10 m
€357-423
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
5 h 0 m
€334-439
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
PraguePRG
3 h 45 m
€271-316
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
10 h 25 m
€612-704
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
11 h 30 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureCairoHanoi
Official languageArabicVietnamese
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Dong (VND)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation23 m10 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCairoHanoi
City population9,801,5368,717,600
People per km²18,5642,595
Museums within 10 km4814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.