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Hanoi or Osaka?

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

Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
Osaka

Photo: Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License

Your match

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
73
match

Wins on getting around and families 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.

HanoiOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 28 points.28
Food & drink. Osaka leads by 6 points.6
Culture & sights. Hanoi leads by 9 points.9
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 30 points.30
Nature & outdoors. Osaka leads by 6 points.6
Day trips. Osaka leads by 39 points.39
Good for families. Osaka leads by 53 points.53
Getting around. Osaka leads by 54 points.54
Shopping & style. Osaka leads by 30 points.30
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 38 points.38
Live music & performing arts. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
Wellness & relaxation. Osaka leads by 20 points.20
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Osaka.

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
JulyHanoiOsaka
Daytime high34 °C32 °C
Night-time low27 °C25 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm175 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea25 °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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiOsaka
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 50 m
€224-243
HAN · 22 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
TokyoHND, NRT
5 h 0 m
€334-439
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 55 m
€194-215
HAN · 22 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
1 h 50 m
€134-146
HAN · 22 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
Hong KongHKG
1 h 40 m
€117-131
HAN · 22 km
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 38 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 25 m
€198-215
HAN · 22 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
3 h 10 m
€192-238
HAN · 22 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 15 m
€205-211
HAN · 22 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 50 m
€678-696
2 stops
HAN · 22 km
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 38 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureHanoiOsaka
Official languageVietnameseJapanese
CurrencyDong (VND)Yen (JPY)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiOsaka
City population8,717,6002,751,862
People per km²2,59512,340
Museums within 10 km1443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.