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Hanoi or Marrakech?

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 Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
Marrakech

Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Hanoi
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Marrakech
49
match

Wins on wellness and shopping 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.

HanoiMarrakech
Beaches & swimming. Marrakech leads by 1 points.1
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 21 points.21
Culture & sights. Marrakech leads by 4 points.4
Nightlife. Hanoi leads by 17 points.17
Nature & outdoors. Marrakech leads by 18 points.18
Day trips. Hanoi leads by 30 points.30
Good for families. Hanoi leads by 10 points.10
Getting around. Marrakech leads by 2 points.2
Shopping & style. Marrakech leads by 22 points.22
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 26 points.26
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi leads by 15 points.15
Wellness & relaxation. Marrakech leads by 29 points.29
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Marrakech.

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
JulyHanoiMarrakech
Daytime high34 °C38 °C
Night-time low27 °C21 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm1 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day11 hours a day
Daylight13 hours a day14 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Marrakech
19
21
24
26
30
34
38
37
33
29
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Marrakech
26
27
36
28
9
3
1
3
14
19
29
25
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Marrakech
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Marrakech
8
8
8
9
10
11
11
10
9
8
8
7

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). Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiMarrakech
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 20 m
€140-172
RAK · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 10 m
€85-123
RAK · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 10 m
€61-121
RAK · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 35 m
€144-224
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 40 m
€201-233
1 stop
RAK · 6 km
PraguePRG
10 h 25 m
€612-704
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
RAK · 6 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

MeasureHanoiMarrakech
Official languageVietnameseArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyDong (VND)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation10 m465 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiMarrakech
City population8,717,6001,002,697
People per km²2,5954,360
Museums within 10 km1414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.