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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Hanoi or Petra?

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

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Petra for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Hanoi leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Petra 22: Hanoi leads by 63 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Petra 85: Petra leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Petra 5: Hanoi leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Petra 78: Petra leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Petra 30: Hanoi leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Petra 25: Hanoi leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Petra 25: Hanoi leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Petra 18: Hanoi leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Petra 45: Hanoi leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Petra 10: Hanoi leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Petra 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 Petra.

Your match

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

Hanoi
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights 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
13 hdaylight a day

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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.

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHanoiPetra
Official languageVietnameseArabic
CurrencyDong (VND)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation10 m850 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiPetra
City population8,717,600-
People per km²2,595-
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. 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 figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.