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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hanoi or Myrtle Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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, Myrtle Beach 84: Myrtle Beach leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Myrtle Beach 38: Hanoi leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Myrtle Beach 20: Hanoi leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Myrtle Beach 42: Hanoi leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Myrtle Beach 46: Hanoi leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Myrtle Beach 50: Hanoi leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Myrtle Beach 18: Hanoi leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Myrtle Beach 38: Hanoi leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Myrtle Beach 52: Hanoi leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Myrtle Beach 30: Hanoi leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Hanoi
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HanoiMyrtle Beach

Where the figures come from

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

Myrtle Beach 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). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHanoiMyrtle Beach
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiMyrtle Beach
City population8,717,60035,682
People per km²2,595591
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.