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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Hanoi or Los Cabos?

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
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Cabos’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, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Los Cabos 54: Hanoi leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Los Cabos 20: Hanoi leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Los Cabos 42: Hanoi leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Los Cabos 28: Hanoi leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Los Cabos 36: Hanoi leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Los Cabos 28: Hanoi leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Los Cabos 12: Hanoi leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Los Cabos.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HanoiLos Cabos

Where the figures come from

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

Los Cabos has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHanoiLos Cabos
Official languageVietnameseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDong (VND)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiLos Cabos
City population8,717,600202,694
People per km²2,595-
Museums within 10 km141
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.