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Galway 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.

Galway Cathedral from the River Corrib, Galway
Galway

Photo: Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
Hanoi

Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Galway
45
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Hanoi
✓ Best match
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.

GalwayHanoi
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 22 points.22
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 40 points.40
Culture & sights. Hanoi leads by 39 points.39
Nightlife. Galway and Hanoi are level on 50.
Nature & outdoors. Galway leads by 26 points.26
Day trips. Hanoi leads by 2 points.2
Good for families. Galway leads by 7 points.7
Getting around. Galway leads by 22 points.22
Shopping & style. Hanoi leads by 12 points.12
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 70 points.70
Live music & performing arts. Galway leads by 17 points.17
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 18 points.18
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Galway 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
JulyGalwayHanoi
Daytime high20 °C34 °C
Night-time low13 °C27 °C
Rainfall in the month76 mm311 mm
Sunshine4 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperature16 °CNo sea
Daylight16 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4

Where the figures come from

Galway's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Shannon Airport.

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayHanoi
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
11 h 5 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.

Before you go

MeasureGalwayHanoi
Official languageEnglish, IrishVietnamese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dong (VND)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation25 m10 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayHanoi
City population83,4568,717,600
People per km²1,5632,595
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.