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Hanoi or Inverness?

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

The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
Hanoi

Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
Inverness

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Hanoi
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Inverness
40
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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.

HanoiInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 14 points.14
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 49 points.49
Culture & sights. Hanoi leads by 45 points.45
Nightlife. Hanoi leads by 22 points.22
Nature & outdoors. Inverness leads by 32 points.32
Day trips. Hanoi leads by 2 points.2
Good for families. Inverness leads by 20 points.20
Getting around. Inverness leads by 12 points.12
Shopping & style. Hanoi leads by 20 points.20
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 60 points.60
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi leads by 7 points.7
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 16 points.16
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Inverness.

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
JulyHanoiInverness
Daytime high34 °C19 °C
Night-time low27 °C11 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm60 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day5 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea14 °C
Daylight13 hours a day17 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
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1

Where the figures come from

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

Inverness's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiInverness
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 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

MeasureHanoiInverness
Official languageVietnameseEnglish
CurrencyDong (VND)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112 or 999
Elevation10 m7 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiInverness
City population8,717,60047,380
People per km²2,5952,289
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.