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Florence 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.

Florence and the Arno, Florence
Florence

Photo: Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License

The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
Hanoi

Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices 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.

FlorenceHanoi
Beaches & swimming. Florence leads by 8 points.8
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 11 points.11
Culture & sights. Florence leads by 22 points.22
Nightlife. Hanoi leads by 8 points.8
Nature & outdoors. Florence leads by 6 points.6
Day trips. Florence leads by 40 points.40
Good for families. Florence leads by 10 points.10
Getting around. Florence leads by 42 points.42
Shopping & style. Florence leads by 22 points.22
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 63 points.63
Live music & performing arts. Florence leads by 18 points.18
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 4 points.4
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence 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
JulyFlorenceHanoi
Daytime high32 °C34 °C
Night-time low19 °C27 °C
Rainfall in the month32 mm311 mm
Sunshine11 hours a day6 hours a day
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4

Where the figures come from

Florence's rainfall is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceHanoi
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
PraguePRG
1 h 30 m
€216-266
1 stop
FLR · 6 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

MeasureFlorenceHanoi
Official languageItalianVietnamese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dong (VND)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation50 m10 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceHanoi
City population360,9308,717,600
People per km²3,5282,595
Museums within 10 km14014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41

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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). 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.