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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hanoi or Santa Fe?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Hanoi leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Santa Fe 62: Hanoi leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Santa Fe 66: Hanoi leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Santa Fe 22: Hanoi leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Santa Fe 45: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Santa Fe 40: Santa Fe leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Santa Fe 30: Hanoi leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Santa Fe.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts 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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HanoiSanta Fe

Where the figures come from

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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHanoiSanta Fe
Official languageVietnamese-
CurrencyDong (VND)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation10 m2,134 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiSanta Fe
City population8,717,60087,505
People per km²2,595645
Museums within 10 km1410
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.