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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hanoi or Luxor?

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

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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 and Luxor are level on 6.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Luxor 30: Hanoi leads by 55 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Luxor 10: Hanoi leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Luxor 32: Hanoi leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Luxor 30: Hanoi leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Luxor 35: Hanoi leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Luxor 25: Hanoi leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Luxor 90: Hanoi leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Luxor 10: Hanoi leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Luxor 28: Hanoi leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Luxor.

Your match

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

Hanoi
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights 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
13 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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.

Luxor 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). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHanoiLuxor
Official languageVietnameseArabic
CurrencyDong (VND)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation10 m89 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiLuxor
City population8,717,600202,232
People per km²2,595486
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. 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 figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.