🇻🇳Hanoi for Digital Nomads
Vietnam · Old quarter energy
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Costs
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community-reported
Wifi
39Mbps
Mild months
3of 12
Safety
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no data yet
Overall
4.2
Hanoi at a glance
Hanoi is the un-adapted option: a thousand-year capital that runs on its own logic — pavement kitchens, lake mornings, a café culture with genuine depth — and lets you fit in around it. The economics cooperate at a national price level of 28.9 against a US benchmark of 1008 (source: World Bank — price level of household consumption, US = 100), and most EU passports get 45 visa-free days11 (source: Government sources — checked 2026-07-29), with e-visas covering the rest and no nomad route pretending otherwise11 (source: Government sources — checked 2026-07-29).
The city asks things in return. The modelled air quality is poor at 57 µg/m³ PM2.53 (source: Copernicus CAMS — modelled annual figure — no station reports here), worst in the grey winter months when the whole basin holds its breath; the tap water is not for drinking9 (source: Nomadbase country research — country tap-water tier); and the traffic is a weather system you learn to move through. Only 3 of 12 months land in the mild band2 (source: Nomadbase comfort index — from 2025 data) — a damp cool winter and a furnace summer bracket two brief perfect seasons.
It suits you if texture beats convenience, your budget likes Vietnamese arithmetic, and you find charisma in cities that predate the concept of catering to visitors. It suits you less if air quality tops your criteria or you need the scene layer Saigon carries — Hanoi's community is thinner and quieter, like the city prefers it.
What works
- National price level 28.9 (US = 100)8 (source: World Bank — household consumption price level)
- 45 visa-free days for most EU passports11 (source: Government sources — checked 2026-07-29)
- A café culture with a thousand rooms and its own liturgy
- Old Quarter texture that no planning committee could invent
Worth knowing
- Modelled PM2.5 of 57 µg/m³3 (source: Copernicus CAMS — no station reports here) — winter air is the honest catch
- US and other passports need the e-visa from day one11 (source: Government sources — checked 2026-07-29)
- Only 3 of 12 months in the mild band2 (source: Nomadbase comfort index — from 2025 data)
- Tap water is not drinkable9 (source: Nomadbase country research — country tap-water tier); the traffic is a learned language
Living in Hanoi
Neighbourhoods, finding a place and getting around — the practical layer the data tiles below cannot carry. Working, money, people and time off live in their own sections.
Where to stay
Tây Hồ (West Lake) is the expat shore — lakeside cafés, international groceries, breathing room — and where most remote workers settle. The Old Quarter is the full immersion: magnificent, loud, and best in small doses of residence. Ba Đình and the French Quarter offer boulevard calm; Hoàn Kiếm's edges balance access and sanity. The lake-versus-quarter choice is really a nervous-system decision.
Finding a place
Serviced apartments and lake-view studios move through local agents and the Hanoi Massive housing groups, furnished and flexible, with negotiation expected and improving with Vietnamese pleasantries. Stock quality varies behind identical facades: check the window seals (winter damp is real), the water heater, and which direction the karaoke bar faces.
Getting around
The motorbike river has rules; learn them as a pedestrian first — steady pace, no sudden moves, faith — before deciding whether to join it as a rider. Grab bikes and cars price kindly, the new metro lines cover their corridors, and the lake loop walks beautifully. Bicycles enjoy the early mornings before the city fully wakes.
Cost of living
#9of 101 destinations
What a month actually costs, as a range — housing you can verify, everyday spending modelled from national price levels, and every line labelled with which it is.
Money
Cash and local QR payments run the street economy; cards cover the modern layer. ATMs are everywhere and the arithmetic is forgiving — the city's daily costs sit at a level where a splurge requires imagination. Gentle bargaining belongs in markets, not cafés.
- Coworking deskadd-on, not in the range
- €61/mo7 (source: Published prices — CoGo (1 Thai Ha and 8 Quang Trung) and Hanoi Hub — median of 3 published monthly flexible-desk rates (1,800,000 VND), REPLACES the earlier Dreamplex figure (~USD 115), which was one chain-wide price standing in for both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Published strings: CoGo "Cho ngoi linh hoat" 2.600.000 VND/member/month at 1 Thai Ha (Dong Da) and 1.600.000 at 8 Quang Trung (Ha Dong); Hanoi Hub individual flexible seat "Companion (1 thang)" 1.800.000 VND. Median of [1,600,000, 1,800,000, 2,600,000] = 1,800,000. CoGo offers up to 5% off individual seat packages. No VAT statement on any of the three pages. Excluded: day rates (CoGo 99,000; Hanoi Hub 80,000) and private offices (Hanoi Hub from 6,000,000/month). Toong publishes no prices; Regus Hanoi publishes day and hour rates only., checked 2026-07-30. Converted at the Vietcombank rate for 2026-07-30 ("Transfer" (chuyển khoản) rate for EUR from Vietcombank's published daily rate feed, timestamped 30/07/2026 21:08 — the non-cash rate, which is what a card payment or bank transfer realises. Vietnam's largest bank by FX turnover and the country's reference quote. The State Bank of Vietnam's "tỷ giá trung tâm" of 25,320/USD for the same day is a policy anchor, not a transactable quote, and is not used.). ⚠️ A transfer rate, not a cash rate. Vietcombank the same day: EUR buy 29,327.47 / transfer 29,623.71 / sell 30,873.62 — so changing EUR cash realises the buy side, about 1.0% below this figure, and buying EUR back costs the sell side. Converting at the SBV central rate instead, as this entry did until 2026-07-30, read 2.7% dearer than the market.)
- Local transport
- €9/mo
Spot prices: 3-star hotel €29/night7 (source: Published prices — Booking.com, 3-star Hanoi, night 12-13 Aug 2026, 2 adults, Page heading verbatim: "Hanoi: 901 properties found. Applied filters: 3 stars." Median of the first 3 listed, each "3 out of 5" and "Includes taxes and charges": DE LA SOIE Hotel & Travel EUR 29 (from EUR 267), Euphoria Hotel & Spa EUR 39 (from EUR 127), Homestay CHAT Old Quarter EUR 16. Two of the three are deep promotional rates, so this is a promotional snapshot for one night rather than a stable rack rate — hence medium., checked 2026-07-30) · ride-hailing ~5 km €2.62/ride7 (source: Published prices — G7 Taxi Ha Noi, own published fare table (Vios/Avante/Elantra/Accent, 5 seats), VAT included (77,505 VND), Operator fare table headed "BANG GIA CUOC AP DUNG TU NGAY 27.08.2024", stating "Gia tren da bao gom VAT". Arithmetic: the 20,000 VND opening fare covers the first 1,290 m, so 5,000 - 1,290 = 3.710 km x 15,500 = 57,505; total 77,505 VND. Note Hanoi's unusually long first leg (~1.2-1.4 km depending on class). Cheapest 5-seat class (Kia/i10/Mirage) would be 69,994; 7-seat 85,008. Mai Linh publishes no fare table at all — both /vi/gia-cuoc and /en/taxi-fare redirect to generic corporate content., checked 2026-07-30. Converted at the Vietcombank rate for 2026-07-30 ("Transfer" (chuyển khoản) rate for EUR from Vietcombank's published daily rate feed, timestamped 30/07/2026 21:08 — the non-cash rate, which is what a card payment or bank transfer realises. Vietnam's largest bank by FX turnover and the country's reference quote. The State Bank of Vietnam's "tỷ giá trung tâm" of 25,320/USD for the same day is a policy anchor, not a transactable quote, and is not used.). ⚠️ A transfer rate, not a cash rate. Vietcombank the same day: EUR buy 29,327.47 / transfer 29,623.71 / sell 30,873.62 — so changing EUR cash realises the buy side, about 1.0% below this figure, and buying EUR back costs the sell side. Converting at the SBV central rate instead, as this entry did until 2026-07-30, read 2.7% dearer than the market.) · café latte €1.997 (source: Published prices — The Coffee House, "Latte Classic" (size Nho) — the chain's own live menu endpoint (59,000 VND), The chain's own menu JSON, which the HTML storefront reads (it renders prices client-side). Product "Latte Classic", slug latte-classic, base_price 59000, variants Nho 59000 / Vua 65000 / Lon 69000; the hot "Latte Nong" is 65000 in a single size. Context from the same menu: Cappuccino Da 59000, Americano Classic 49000, Ca Phe Sua Da 39000. CAVEAT: the chain default menu, no branch parameter passed, so it is not city-specific — the same figure applies in Ho Chi Minh City. Highlands Coffee, Starbucks Vietnam and Phuc Long returned 403 or publish no prices., checked 2026-07-30. Converted at the Vietcombank rate for 2026-07-30 ("Transfer" (chuyển khoản) rate for EUR from Vietcombank's published daily rate feed, timestamped 30/07/2026 21:08 — the non-cash rate, which is what a card payment or bank transfer realises. Vietnam's largest bank by FX turnover and the country's reference quote. The State Bank of Vietnam's "tỷ giá trung tâm" of 25,320/USD for the same day is a policy anchor, not a transactable quote, and is not used.). ⚠️ A transfer rate, not a cash rate. Vietcombank the same day: EUR buy 29,327.47 / transfer 29,623.71 / sell 30,873.62 — so changing EUR cash realises the buy side, about 1.0% below this figure, and buying EUR back costs the sell side. Converting at the SBV central rate instead, as this entry did until 2026-07-30, read 2.7% dearer than the market.) · Big Mac €2.517 (source: Published prices — The Economist Big Mac Index, national average (76,000 VND = 2.89 USD), July 2026 release — data CC BY 4.0) · eSIM, 30 days €16.507 (source: Published prices — Airalo Vietnam eSIM ("Xinchao", 10 GB / 30 days), Package slug xinchao-in-30days-10gb, published price {"amount":"16.50","formatted":"16.50 €"}, currency code EUR in the same payload. Rendered page shows Unlimited only (30 days 62.50 €). Neighbours: 5 GB/30d 10.00 €, 20 GB/30d 26.50 €. Country-level price, identical for Ho Chi Minh City., checked 2026-07-30)
We cannot put a month together for Hanoi yet: we have no housing price for it — neither a coliving room nor a place of your own. Everyday spending we can model from national price levels, but housing is the part that actually varies by city, and a month without it would say more about our data than about Hanoi. The prices we do hold are above.
Live in Hanoi? Members report what they pay — and the medians appear right here.
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#71of 103 destinations
39Mbps
median download, measured in the city
Connection, desks and whether a day here meets yours — the three things that decide whether you can do your job from this city.
Working from here
The café is the city's true coworking network — generations deep, laptop-tolerant by long custom, and open from egg-coffee dawn to late — with proper coworking spaces clustering around Tây Hồ and the centre for call-heavy days. Fibre is cheap and widely decent; the winter air argues for a purifier in the home office more than any productivity app.
Internet
Coliving & coworking
- Coworking spaces mapped
- 144 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Cafés mapped
- 1,4584 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Time zones
Workday overlap with Europe
2 of 8 h1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — Nomadbase overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day against Open-Meteo time zone (Asia/Bangkok), standard time; Europe reference UTC+1)
Workday overlap with US East
0 of 8 h1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — Nomadbase overlap of a 09:00-17:00 day against Open-Meteo time zone (Asia/Bangkok), standard time; US East reference UTC-5)
Overlap is the hours a 09:00–17:00 day here meets a 09:00–17:00 day there, at standard time.
Climate & air
#98of 103 destinations
3of 12
mild months — felt temperature between 18 and 27 °C
Month by month, not as one annual average. 18–27 °C is the range where being outside feels good — we count how much of the year sits inside it.
Seasons
Four real seasons, unevenly loved: a grey, damp, surprisingly cold winter the guidebooks under-report; a brief, luminous spring; a summer that combines furnace heat with theatrical monsoon downpours; and an autumn — October, November — of dry air and golden light that explains every poem the city has produced. Plan arrivals around autumn if you can, and winter with the right expectations and a heater if you cannot.
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feels-like monthly mean · ticks = rain days1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 monthly means (felt temperature, rain-day share, cloud share))
comfortable & clearcomfortable, wetter/greyeroutside the 18–27 °C band
- Dry days a year
- 182 days/year1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 full-year count)
- Cloud cover, annual mean
- 75%1 (source: Copernicus ERA5 — 2025 annual average)
Air quality — PM2.5, recent median
57 µg/m³ · very poor3 (source: Copernicus CAMS — modelled 30-day mean)
The climate score is built from that band plus rain and cloud cover, month by month — so a hot summer costs a destination points rather than earning them.
Safety & everyday life
#91of 103 destinations
7.1/ 10
women's safety — Georgetown WPS index, country level
Country-level indicators — a practical baseline for the whole country, not the vibe of one neighbourhood. Community reports refine this picture over time.
Staying safe
Personal-safety risk is low — violent trouble against foreigners is rare enough to be news — and the practical list is short: bag-snatch awareness on kerbs (strap across, phone inside), scooter theft prevention if you ride, and the traffic itself as the city's one true predator. Drink-spiking caution applies in the small late-night scene. The air is the health topic that matters: winter inversion days reward masks, purifiers and indoor training — the app-check is a local habit worth adopting immediately.
- Homicide rate, national
- not measured yet
- Hospitals & clinics
- ≈ 3.5 / 100k4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Pharmacies
- ≈ 2.7 / 100k4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Safety for women
7.1 / 10
Georgetown WPS index — inclusion, justice and security, country level
306 mapped within 15 km
239 mapped within 15 km
Getting by in English
5.3 / 10
moderate English proficiency
LGBTQ+ legal position · Vietnam9 (source: Nomadbase country research — checked 2026-07-29)
4.0 / 10- Same-sex relationshipsLegal
- Partnership recognitionNone
- Employment protectionsNo
- Legal gender changeNot possible
5 queer venues mapped in the city · ≈ 0.1 per 100k residents4 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
Never criminalised and increasingly tolerant in urban areas; a 2014 law removed the ban on same-sex weddings but grants no legal recognition. The 2015 Civil Code recognises a right to gender change after reassignment, but the implementing Gender Affirmation Law is still pending, so marker changes remain largely unobtainable in practice.
Tap water · Vietnam9 (source: Nomadbase country research — checked 2026-07-29)
1.0 / 10Unsafe
Bottled advised
Mostly fine
Drink the tap
Not safe without treatment
Tap water is not potable anywhere, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; locals boil it and visitors should use bottled or filtered water.
Getting there & staying
#97of 103 destinations
45 days
visa-free on an EU passport · set in Your setup
How you get in, how long you may stay, and what it takes to run a business from here.
Visa & entry requirements
Most EU passports get 45 days visa-free — guaranteed until 2028 under two government resolutions — while US, Canadian and Australian passports need the 90-day e-visa (US$25). There is no nomad visa; the much-hyped 10-year golden visa was still only a draft as of spring 2026.11 (source: Government sources — checked against the official source on July 29, 2026)
How long you can stay
- 45 days visa-free for 13 unilaterally exempt nationalities — Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Japan, South Korea — locked in until 14 March 2028 (Resolution 44/NQ-CP).
- Another 12 European countries — Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czechia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia (tourism entries) — get 45 days until 14 August 2028 under the tourism-stimulus Resolution 229/NQ-CP.
- Everyone else — including US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Portugal — needs the e-visa: open to all nationalities, 90 days per stay, single (US$25) or multiple entry (US$50), issued online in a few working days. Entry points expanded to 83 in late 2025.
- Back-to-back exempt entries and visa runs are common and rarely blocked, but nothing in the rules guarantees them — officers can question frequent returns.
Staying longer as a remote worker
- There is no digital-nomad visa and no legal remote-work status. Working online while on a tourist exemption or e-visa is the standard practice and a genuine grey area — tolerated in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, never formally permitted.
- The realistic long-stay pattern is stringing 90-day multiple-entry e-visas together with border runs.
- ⚠️ Pending, not law: a 5-to-10-year "golden visa" for investors, talent and nomads has been proposed to the Prime Minister, but as of April 2026 it had no decree and no application channel. The only enacted long-term routes are DT investor visas, which require real capital in a Vietnamese company.
- A digital arrival card pilot started at Ho Chi Minh City airport on 15 April 2026 — expect more pre-arrival paperwork, not fewer checks.
Visa rules change frequently. This information was last checked on July 29, 2026. It is not legal advice — confirm before booking with the official source.
Flights
The nearest major airport — Noi Bai International Airport — is 22 km6 (source: OurAirports — nearest major airport is Noi Bai International Airport) out, with 2 airports6 (source: OurAirports — major and regional airports with scheduled service) within 100 km overall.
Company & banking
Setting up a company
4.0 / 10
partly remote · foreign ownership restricted · no real minimum capital · ~45 days to register
Opening an account
5.3 / 10
personal account difficult · business account straightforward · branch visit needed · limited EMI cover
Setting up, in practice
This changed on 1 March 2026: the Law on Investment 2025 introduced ERC-first incorporation, so a foreign investor now registers the company first and files the Investment Registration Certificate within 12 months — but may only run the investment project once the IRC is issued. Statutory times are 3 working days for the ERC and 15 for the IRC; realistically 6–10 weeks with document legalisation. No statutory minimum capital, though the authority assesses whether the stated capital fits the project.Banking, in practice
A registered company gets an account without much friction. Personal accounts for non-residents are hard, and the capital-contribution account for the foreign investment is a separate, mandatory thing that trips people up.Not legal or tax advice. Company law, fees and bank policy change without notice — confirm with the registry linked on each figure and with a local adviser before you act on any of it.
Going out
#90of 103 destinations
7.3/ 100
bars, pubs and clubs per 100 restaurants & cafés
Evenings, eating and what there is to do once the laptop closes.
Time off
The north is the prize: Ha Long and Lan Ha bays for the karst-and-junk weekend, Ninh Bình's river caves as the day-trip masterpiece, Sa Pa and Hà Giang's mountain loops for the long escapes. Mai Châu's valleys slow a weekend properly. And the north-south railway or a cheap flight opens Huế, Đà Nẵng and the whole coastal ladder when the capital's intensity asks for a beach.
CafésClick the map to open it — 23 places mapped in Hanoi altogether.
- Bars, pubs and clubs
- 2454 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Restaurants
- 1,8824 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Vegan-friendly places
- 784 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Vegetarian-friendly places
- 894 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
mapped within 15 km
mapped within 15 km — the base the shares below are measured against
2.3 per 100 restaurants & cafés
2.7 per 100 restaurants & cafés
Being active
#102of 103 destinations
48spots
gyms and yoga studios mapped in town
Gyms, studios and board sports in town, and the nature within reach — counted where counting is honest, shown as a badge where the map is too sparse to rank.
Staying active
The lakes structure the city's exercise: the West Lake loop absorbs the runners and cyclists at dawn, Hoàn Kiếm hosts the public aerobics that count as civic theatre, and badminton nets appear on any flat surface by six. Gyms are plentiful and cheap, yoga studios serve the lake district, and the winter air quality writes the indoor-outdoor schedule more honestly than any coach.
In town
GymsYogaClick the map to open it — 23 places mapped in Hanoi altogether.
- Gyms
- 444 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
- Yoga studios
- 44 (source: OpenStreetMap — within 15km)
mapped within 15 km — ≈ 0.5 / 100k
mapped within 15 km — ≈ 0.0 / 100k
Nature within reach
Community
Who is here, who is coming, and who has been. Counts only — never names.
Meeting people
The community is smaller and more settled than the southern scene: teachers, long-haul expats, a quiet creative layer — organised through Tây Hồ's cafés, language exchanges and the running clubs rather than event calendars. Vietnamese friendship comes through repetition: the same phở stool, the same café table, the same greetings, until suddenly you belong to a street.
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How the scores work
Every score runs 0–10 and is comparative — where Hanoi lands across the catalogue, not a grade in isolation.
Cost
9.0#9 of 101 · 1 of 1 measured
What a month costs, from the cheapest way of living here to the dearest we can price.
No housing price is verified here yet, so the score rests on the country price level (29, US = 100). Across the catalogue that ranks 9th of 101.
Public data 9.0
Work
3.6#71 of 103 · 2 of 2 measured
Connection, desks and whether the working day here meets yours.
Typical downloads run around 39 Mbps and 14 coworking spaces are mapped in town. Across the catalogue that ranks 71st of 103.
Public data 4.4
Public data 2.8
Climate
2.3#98 of 103 · 1 of 1 measured
How the year feels outside, air quality included.
3 of the 12 months sit in the comfortable 18–27 °C range and air pollution is heavy (57.0 µg/m³ PM2.5, modelled — no station reports here). Across the catalogue that ranks 98th of 103.
Public data 2.3
Safety
3.7#91 of 103 · 5 of 6 measured
The country-level baseline: violence, healthcare, water, and who the law protects.
Women's safety scores 7.1/10 on the Georgetown index, 306 clinics and hospitals are mapped within reach and tap water is not drinkable. Across the catalogue that ranks 91st of 103.
Public data 0.6
Public data 7.1
Public data 1.0
Public data 4.0
Public data 5.3
Not measured here yet: safety.
Read the sectionGetting there
2.4#97 of 103 · 3 of 3 measured
Getting in, staying legally, and flying out again.
An EU passport gets 45 visa-free days, there is no long-stay route for remote work and the nearest major airport is 22 km from town. Across the catalogue that ranks 97th of 103.
Public data 1.3
Public data 2.8
Public data 4.6
Going out
2.8#90 of 103 · 4 of 4 measured
Evenings, eating and what there is to do when the laptop closes.
For every 100 restaurants and cafés there are 7 bars, pubs or clubs and 2 vegan-friendly places per 100 restaurants and cafés. Across the catalogue that ranks 90th of 103.
Public data 1.6
Public data 1.8
Public data 5.7
Public data 4.4
Being active
1.5#102 of 103 · 2 of 2 measured
Gyms and studios, board sports, and the nature within reach.
44 gyms and 4 yoga studios are mapped in town and 0 nature reserves and 1 hiking routes lie within 30 km. Across the catalogue that ranks 102nd of 103.
Public data 1.8
Public data 1.2
Community
Nothing measured here yet
Members on the ground, chapters and events — our own data, not a proxy.
Not measured here yet: community.
Read the sectionSources
Every figure on this page carries the source it came from and the date it was measured. Where no source exists, the field is left empty rather than estimated.
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Copernicus ERA5Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information
ECMWF’s ERA5 reanalysis, retrieved through Open-Meteo. Temperatures, rainfall, cloud cover and wind are daily values for the last complete calendar year.
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Our own reading of ERA5 data, not a measurement: a month-by-month score for how comfortable the felt temperature is, damped for rain and cloud. The formula is published.
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Copernicus CAMS© ECMWF/Copernicus
Modelled air quality, used only where no ground station exists. A 40km model cell, not a measurement on the corner — the page says which of the two you are looking at.
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OpenStreetMapODbL
Community-mapped places: coworking, cafés, gyms and diet options within 15km. Counts are a floor rather than a census — coverage depends on local mappers.
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M-LabCC BY-SA 4.0
Internet speed from real speed tests run by people in the city, aggregated over a seven-day window.
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OurAirportsPublic domain
Airport locations and types. Distances are to the nearest major airport with scheduled service.
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Prices read by hand from the operator’s or authority’s own published price list — a transit tariff, a coworking rate card, an eSIM store — on the date shown. Checked quarterly; the linked page is the source.
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World BankCC BY 4.0
Price level of household consumption at market exchange rates (US = 100) — a national figure that anchors the cost score where no city-level source exists yet. It measures what arriving with foreign income feels like, which is why a weak currency lowers it.
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Hand-maintained country tables for the LGBTQ+ legal position and tap-water safety, compiled from advocacy databases (ILGA World, Human Dignity Trust), national authorities and government travel advice, and scored with a published rubric. Country-level by nature — city reality can differ, which is what the practical note is for.
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WikidataCC0
Structural facts taken from the place’s Wikidata entity — resident population, which mirrors a national census figure, and elevation above sea level. The year is the one Wikidata records for that figure; where the entity was the wrong scale for the place we describe, the number has been replaced by a hand-sourced one from the statistics office instead.
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Government sources
Visa and entry rules come from the responsible authority for each country, linked in the visa section and re-checked by hand on the date shown.
Frequently asked questions
How fast is the internet in Hanoi?
Median download speed is about 39.3 Mbps. Source: M-Lab median of 9,847 tests within 50 km, last 7 days.
What visa do I need for Hanoi?
Most EU passports get 45 days visa-free — guaranteed until 2028 under two government resolutions — while US, Canadian and Australian passports need the 90-day e-visa (US$25). There is no nomad visa; the much-hyped 10-year golden visa was still only a draft as of spring 2026. Last checked 2026-07-29. Always confirm with the official source before booking.
What is the weather like in Hanoi?
Winters average 18.6 °C and summers 29.6 °C. 3 of 12 months average a comfortable 18–27 °C (felt temperature). Source: Copernicus ERA5, 2025 annual average.
Can I work European or US hours from Hanoi?
A 09:00–17:00 working day in Hanoi overlaps 2 hours with Central European time and 0 hours with US Eastern time, at standard time.
Are there coworking spaces in Hanoi?
14 coworking spaces are mapped in Hanoi, plus 1458 cafés to work from. Source: OpenStreetMap, within 15km. Counts are a floor, not a census — coverage depends on local mappers.
How do you get to Hanoi?
The nearest major airport is about 22 km away. 2 airports with scheduled service within 100 km. Source: OurAirports — nearest major airport is Noi Bai International Airport.
Last reviewed August 5, 2026. Every figure carries its own measurement date; hover a footnote for the source, or see the list above.