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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hoi An or Interlaken?

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 Hoi An for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’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. Hoi An 72, Interlaken 30: Hoi An leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Interlaken 25: Hoi An leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Interlaken 8: Hoi An leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Interlaken 15: Hoi An leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Interlaken 22: Hoi An leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Interlaken 8: Hoi An leads by 80 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Interlaken 15: Hoi An leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Interlaken 40: Hoi An leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Interlaken.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Interlaken 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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnInterlaken
Official languageVietnameseFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyDong (VND)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114112
Elevation13 m571 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnInterlaken
City population121,7166,123
People per km²-1,424
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.