Climate
Hanoi logs 6 outdoor-dinner months a year to Thanh Hóa's 5 — Hanoi wins by 1. Thanh Hóa also leads on sunny days by 18.
Hanoi
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Thanh Hóa
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Air Quality
Hanoi averages 35.4 µg/m³ (very unhealthy) PM2.5 annually versus Thanh Hóa's 29.2 µg/m³ (unhealthy) — Thanh Hóa breathes ~17% cleaner air (6.1 µg/m³ lower).
Hanoi
Thanh Hóa
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 Thanh Hóa (257K) are 19x in population — Hanoi is the larger metro, Thanh Hóa the smaller; on land area Hanoi spans roughly 13x more ground.
Hanoi is roughly 16x the scale of Thanh Hóa
Combined population & area comparison
HanoiThanh HóaCity Scale Rankings
Hanoi5.0M19xThanh Hóa257K1xHanoi925 km²13xThanh Hóa69 km²1xHanoi
Thanh Hóa
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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