Climate
Hanoi logs 6 outdoor-dinner months a year to Thái Nguyên's 5 — Hanoi wins by 1. Hanoi also leads on sunny days by 12.
Hanoi
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Thái Nguyên
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Air Quality
Hanoi averages 35.4 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Thái Nguyên's 30.4 µg/m³ (unhealthy) — Thái Nguyên breathes ~14% cleaner air (5.0 µg/m³ lower).
Hanoi
Thái Nguyên
PM2.5 annual average
WHO classification
City Scale
Both maps at the same real-world scale — 1 cm on either map is the same distance.
Hanoi (5.0M) and Thái Nguyên (258K) are 19x in population — Hanoi is the larger metro, Thái Nguyên the smaller; on land area Hanoi spans roughly 15x more ground.
Hanoi is roughly 17x the scale of Thái Nguyên
Combined population & area comparison
HanoiThái NguyênCity Scale Rankings
Hanoi5.0M19xThái Nguyên258K1xHanoi925 km²15xThái Nguyên63 km²1xHanoi
Thái Nguyên
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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