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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License.

Hanoi or Key West?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Key West for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’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, Key West 60: Key West leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Key West 45: Hanoi leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Key West 40: Hanoi leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Key West 62: Key West leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Key West 62: Key West leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Key West 28: Hanoi leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Key West 40: Key West leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Key West 62: Key West leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Key West 30: Hanoi leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Key West 15: Hanoi leads by 83 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Key West 38: Hanoi leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Key West 40: Hanoi leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Key West.

Your match

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

Hanoi
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Key West
44match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HanoiKey West

Where the figures come from

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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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). Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHanoiKey West
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiKey West
City population8,717,60026,444
People per km²2,5951,407
Museums within 10 km147
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.

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.