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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Hanoi or Palm 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

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm 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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Palm Beach 47: Hanoi leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Palm Beach 45: Hanoi leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Palm Beach 32: Hanoi leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Palm Beach 58: Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Palm Beach 55: Hanoi leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Palm Beach 32: Hanoi leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Palm Beach 12: Hanoi leads by 86 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Hanoi
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHanoiPalm 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 m2 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiPalm Beach
City population8,717,6009,245
People per km²2,595322
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.