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The Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi
HanoiThe Turtle Tower in Hoan Kiem Lake
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Hanoi by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hanoi or Yogyakarta?

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

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Hanoi 85, Yogyakarta 62: Hanoi leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Hanoi 72, Yogyakarta 68: Hanoi leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Hanoi 50, Yogyakarta 32: Hanoi leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hanoi 52, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Hanoi 58, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Hanoi 35, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Hanoi 36, Yogyakarta 35: Hanoi leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Hanoi 50, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Hanoi 98, Yogyakarta 92: Hanoi leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hanoi 40, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hanoi 46, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hanoi and Yogyakarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Hanoi
52match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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

Yogyakarta 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). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHanoiYogyakarta
Official languageVietnameseIndonesian
CurrencyDong (VND)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation10 m113 m
Main airportNoi Bai International Airport (HAN)22 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureHanoiYogyakarta
City population8,717,600422,732
People per km²2,59513,007
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.