VacationSelector

Barcelona or The Hague?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BarcelonaThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 5 points.5
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score6560
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2034
Coast distance2 km3 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 20 points.20
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score9070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4143
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 6 points.6
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score6862
Museums within 10 km10546
Museums within 2 km of centre4926
Share of museums within 2 km %4757
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 36 points.36
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score8246
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6156
Nightclubs within 4 km24519
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score5054
Protected land share 50 km %108
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5156
Park area within 2 km49 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 9 points.9
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score6556
Tourist attractions within 2 km6010
Park area within 2 km49 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 19 points.19
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score7354
Notable places within 2 km25886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 13 points.13
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score7158
Price level global60.879.2
Daily budget€122€181
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 24 points.24
BarcelonaThe Hague
Score7854
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months50
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€79-116
BCN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 45 m
€108-166
1 stop
BCN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 15 m
€71-76
BCN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 0 m
€1,610-1626
BCN · 13 km
14 h 10 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

MeasureBarcelonaThe Hague
Official languageSpanishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation9 m1 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaThe Hague
City population1,731,649548,320
People per km²17,0945,589
Museums within 10 km9554
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre12877
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.