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Hanoi or Kotor?

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

The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
Kotor

Photo: Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License

Your match

Hanoi
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

Kotor
45
match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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.

HanoiKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 51 points.51
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 48 points.48
Culture & sights. Hanoi leads by 17 points.17
Nightlife. Hanoi leads by 20 points.20
Nature & outdoors. Kotor leads by 28 points.28
Day trips. Kotor leads by 14 points.14
Good for families. Kotor leads by 1 points.1
Getting around. Kotor leads by 12 points.12
Shopping & style. Hanoi leads by 30 points.30
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 41 points.41
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi leads by 20 points.20
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 22 points.22
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Kotor.

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
JulyHanoiKotor
Daytime high34 °C33 °C
Night-time low27 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm38 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day11 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea25 °C
Daylight13 hours a day15 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
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

Where the figures come from

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

Kotor's temperatures are measured 40 km from the centre, at Podgorica / Golubovci.

Kotor's rainfall is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiKotor
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
8 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MunichMUC
10 h 45 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 44 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 45 m
€59-120
1 stop
TGD · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 20 m
€232-292
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
PraguePRG
10 h 25 m
€612-704
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TIV · 5 km
AlmatyALA
4 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 40 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

MeasureHanoiKotor
Official languageVietnameseMontenegrin
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation10 m10 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiKotor
City population8,717,600562
People per km²2,595-
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.