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Hanoi or Rome?

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 Colosseum, Rome
Rome

Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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.

HanoiRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 44 points.44
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Rome leads by 27 points.27
Nightlife. Rome leads by 8 points.8
Nature & outdoors. Rome leads by 6 points.6
Day trips. Rome leads by 34 points.34
Good for families. Rome leads by 15 points.15
Getting around. Rome leads by 24 points.24
Shopping & style. Rome leads by 22 points.22
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 60 points.60
Live music & performing arts. Rome leads by 28 points.28
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 6 points.6
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Rome.

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
JulyHanoiRome
Daytime high34 °C31 °C
Night-time low27 °C19 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm21 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day11 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea25 °C
Daylight13 hours a day15 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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Daytime high, °C
Hanoi
19
22
24
28
32
35
34
33
32
30
27
23
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Where the figures come from

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

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hanoi: 1991-2020 normals, Ha Noi (4.4 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 50 m
€224-243
HAN · 22 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 25 m
€198-215
HAN · 22 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 55 m
€194-215
HAN · 22 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
Hong KongHKG
1 h 40 m
€117-131
HAN · 22 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
1 h 50 m
€134-146
HAN · 22 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
GuangzhouCAN
1 h 35 m
€164
HAN · 22 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 50 m
€678-696
2 stops
HAN · 22 km
5 h 45 m
€280-355
2 stops
FCO · 23 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 2026-08 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

MeasureHanoiRome
Official languageVietnameseItalian
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation10 m21 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiRome
City population8,717,6002,748,109
People per km²2,5952,135
Museums within 10 km14177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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). 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. 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 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.