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Hanoi or Reykjavik?

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

The city from Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik
Reykjavik

Photo: Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License

Your match

Hanoi
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Reykjavik
44
match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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.

HanoiReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 43 points.43
Culture & sights. Hanoi leads by 47 points.47
Nightlife. Hanoi leads by 5 points.5
Nature & outdoors. Reykjavik leads by 40 points.40
Day trips. Hanoi leads by 23 points.23
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 20 points.20
Getting around. Reykjavik leads by 19 points.19
Shopping & style. Hanoi leads by 25 points.25
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 92 points.92
Live music & performing arts. Reykjavik leads by 5 points.5
Wellness & relaxation. Reykjavik leads by 42 points.42
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Reykjavik.

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
JulyHanoiReykjavik
Daytime high34 °C15 °C
Night-time low27 °C9 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm50 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea11 °C
Daylight13 hours a day20 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
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 25 m
€198-215
HAN · 22 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
MunichMUC
10 h 45 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
PraguePRG
10 h 25 m
€612-704
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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 2026-09 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureHanoiReykjavik
Official languageVietnameseIcelandic
CurrencyDong (VND)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiReykjavik
City population8,717,600138,772
People per km²2,595569
Museums within 10 km1423
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.