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Hanoi or Thessaloniki?

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 White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki

Photo: Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Hanoi
52
match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

HanoiThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 49 points.49
Food & drink. Hanoi leads by 8 points.8
Culture & sights. Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.1
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
Nature & outdoors. Thessaloniki leads by 14 points.14
Day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.15
Getting around. Thessaloniki leads by 24 points.24
Shopping & style. Hanoi and Thessaloniki are level on 50.
Affordability. Hanoi leads by 32 points.32
Live music & performing arts. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi leads by 13 points.13
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Thessaloniki.

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
JulyHanoiThessaloniki
Daytime high34 °C32 °C
Night-time low27 °C21 °C
Rainfall in the month311 mm23 mm
Sunshine6 hours a day11 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea26 °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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Hanoi
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Hanoi
23
23
52
72
204
272
311
310
179
109
73
30
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Hanoi
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hanoi
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHanoiThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
10 h 45 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
8 h 55 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 5 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
PraguePRG
10 h 25 m
€612-704
1 stop
HAN · 22 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KVA · 145 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
no fares
HAN · 22 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureHanoiThessaloniki
Official languageVietnameseGreek
CurrencyDong (VND)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiThessaloniki
City population8,717,600309,617
People per km²2,59516,042
Museums within 10 km1431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.