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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Hanoi or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Puerto Princesa 38: Hanoi leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Puerto Princesa 22: Hanoi leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Puerto Princesa 26: Hanoi leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Puerto Princesa 12: Hanoi leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Puerto Princesa 45: Puerto Princesa leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Puerto Princesa 30: Hanoi leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Puerto Princesa 20: Hanoi leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Puerto Princesa 78: Hanoi leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Puerto Princesa 10: Hanoi leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Puerto Princesa 40: Hanoi leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Puerto Princesa.

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.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HanoiPuerto Princesa

Where the figures come from

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

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHanoiPuerto Princesa
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyDong (VND)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation10 m98 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-18 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiPuerto Princesa
City population8,717,600316,384
People per km²2,595133
Museums within 10 km141
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.