VacationSelector

Aarhus or The Hague?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
AarhusThe Hague
Score5960
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2834
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
AarhusThe Hague
Score5370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
AarhusThe Hague
Score3862
Museums within 10 km2646
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %7757
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
AarhusThe Hague
Score4046
Drinking venues within 4 km382511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8656
Nightclubs within 4 km1519
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 26 points.26
AarhusThe Hague
Score2854
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6856
Park area within 2 km72 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 23 points.23
AarhusThe Hague
Score3356
Tourist attractions within 2 km610
Park area within 2 km72 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
AarhusThe Hague
Score3754
Notable places within 2 km3386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
AarhusThe Hague
Score5258
Price level global87.879.2
Daily budget€214€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
AarhusThe Hague
Score5354
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusThe Hague
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 40 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€203-231
AMS · 40 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAarhusThe Hague
Official languageDanishDutch
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation6 m1 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusThe Hague
City population290,598548,320
People per km²3,1935,589
Museums within 10 km1754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3777
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.