VacationSelector

Hanoi or Lyon?

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 Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon
Lyon

Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Lyon
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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.

HanoiLyon
Beaches & swimming. Lyon leads by 6 points.6
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 1 points.1
Culture & sights. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
Nature & outdoors. Lyon leads by 12 points.12
Day trips. Lyon leads by 19 points.19
Good for families. Lyon leads by 27 points.27
Getting around. Lyon leads by 41 points.41
Shopping & style. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 56 points.56
Live music & performing arts. Lyon leads by 28 points.28
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 6 points.6
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Lyon.

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
JulyHanoiLyon
Daytime high34 °C28 °C
Night-time low27 °C17 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm66 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day9 hours a day
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
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J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Where the figures come from

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 25 m
€198-215
HAN · 22 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 55 m
€194-215
HAN · 22 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MunichMUC
10 h 45 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
PraguePRG
10 h 25 m
€612-704
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureHanoiLyon
Official languageVietnameseFrench
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation10 m160 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre141 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiLyon
City population8,717,600519,127
People per km²2,59510,838
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.