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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Hoi An or Queenstown?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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, Queenstown 20: Hoi An leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Queenstown 45: Hoi An leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Queenstown 12: Hoi An leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Queenstown 42: Queenstown leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Queenstown 97: Queenstown leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Hoi An and Queenstown are level on 50.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Queenstown 60: Queenstown leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Queenstown 45: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Queenstown 28: Hoi An leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Queenstown 20: Hoi An leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Queenstown 14: Hoi An leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Queenstown 42: Hoi An leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Queenstown.

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.

Queenstown
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife 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

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Queenstown 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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnQueenstown
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyDong (VND)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114111
Elevation13 m324 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnQueenstown
City population121,71629,000
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.