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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Hanoi or Queenstown?

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
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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, Queenstown 20: Queenstown leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Queenstown 45: Hanoi leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Queenstown 12: Hanoi leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Queenstown 42: Hanoi leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Queenstown 97: Queenstown leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Queenstown 50: Hanoi leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Queenstown 60: Queenstown leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Queenstown 45: Queenstown leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Queenstown 28: Hanoi leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Queenstown 20: Hanoi leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Queenstown 14: Hanoi leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Queenstown 42: Hanoi leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Queenstown.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Queenstown
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
13 hdaylight a day

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HanoiQueenstown

Where the figures come from

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

Queenstown 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). Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHanoiQueenstown
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyDong (VND)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114111
Elevation10 m324 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiQueenstown
City population8,717,60029,000
People per km²2,595-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Hanoi or Queenstown somewhere new.

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.