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Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City?

1,160 km apart, both in Vietnam. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Hanoi is the better pick in November to December; Ho Chi Minh City in January to March; either in April. May to October are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Hanoi 20° 7d 22° 6d 26° 8d 29° 10d 31° 16d 33° 17d 33° 20d 32° 23d 31° 19d 28° 11d 25° 5d 21° 4d
Ho Chi Minh City 31° 3d 32° 2d 33° 3d 34° 8d 33° 22d 31° 24d 31° 27d 31° 26d 30° 27d 30° 25d 30° 16d 30° 7d
Hanoi, fare from Bengaluru —————————₹31,110——
Ho Chi Minh City, fare from Bengaluru —₹30,850₹27,510——————₹35,989—₹56,432
Pick Ho Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh CityeitherneitherneitherneitherneitherneitherneitherHanoiHanoi

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

Both are in Vietnam, so the currency, the plugs and the travel advice are the same: type A and C and F and G plugs, driving on the right, paying in the Vietnamese đồng. Everything for Vietnam.

Between them

1,160 km as the crow flies, about 2h 20m in the air.Nonstop, about 63 a day · 4 airlines. By road, 1,531 km and about 18h 59m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.