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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Hanoi or Jerusalem?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Hanoi for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hanoi’s own page.

Choose Jerusalem for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Jerusalem’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Hanoi 6, Jerusalem 40: Jerusalem leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Jerusalem 66: Hanoi leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Jerusalem 92: Jerusalem leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Jerusalem 38: Hanoi leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Jerusalem 60: Jerusalem leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Jerusalem 80: Jerusalem leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Jerusalem 52: Jerusalem leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Jerusalem 55: Jerusalem leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Jerusalem 48: Hanoi leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Jerusalem 20: Hanoi leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi and Jerusalem are level on 40.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Jerusalem 42: Hanoi leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Jerusalem.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Hanoi
52match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Jerusalem
53match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Hanoi in July

34 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
311 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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

Jerusalem has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre). Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHanoiJerusalem
Official languageVietnameseHebrew
CurrencyDong (VND)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 100, fire 102
Elevation10 m754 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiJerusalem
City population8,717,6001,050,151
People per km²2,5958,374
Museums within 10 km1469
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.