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Hanoi or New Orleans?

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 steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New Orleans

Photo: Bernard Spragg, CC0

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

New Orleans
54
match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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.

HanoiNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 8 points.8
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 1 points.1
Culture & sights. Hanoi leads by 5 points.5
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 35 points.35
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi leads by 10 points.10
Day trips. Hanoi leads by 6 points.6
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 20 points.20
Getting around. New Orleans leads by 19 points.19
Shopping & style. New Orleans leads by 4 points.4
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 58 points.58
Live music & performing arts. New Orleans leads by 40 points.40
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 21 points.21
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and New Orleans.

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
JulyHanoiNew Orleans
Daytime high34 °C33 °C
Night-time low27 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm169 mm
Sunshine6 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperatureNo sea30 °C
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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M
A
M
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J
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D
Daytime high, °C
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
New Orleans
No sunshine record

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHanoiNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 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.

Before you go

MeasureHanoiNew Orleans
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation10 m-2 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiNew Orleans
City population8,717,600383,997
People per km²2,595423
Museums within 10 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 months

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.